From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal Date: 08 July 2014 Blog: IBMersIBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
The Top 10 Jobs That Attract Psychopaths
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/01/05/the-top-10-jobs-that-attract-psychopaths/
Past studies related to the economic mess was that wallstreet attract a large percentage of amoral sociopaths ... that much of financial activity is viewed as a game with the players preditors and the rest of us prey. Top executive in large public companies is another way of playing the financial games.
past posts mentioning sociopaths
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#77 Madoff Whistleblower Book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#59 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#24 AMERICA IS BROKEN, WHAT NOW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#30 Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#80 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#4 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#30 Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#16 Interview of Mr. John Reed regarding banking fixing the game
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#99 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#1 Spontaneous conduction: The music man with no written plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#91 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#84 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#53 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#14 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#53 Retirement Savings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#76 Crowdsourcing Diplomacy
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:49:29 -0400Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
The Top 10 Jobs That Attract Psychopaths
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/01/05/the-top-10-jobs-that-attract-psychopaths/
I made reference to have posted several times in a.f.c. that past studies have found wallstreet attracts a large percentage of amoral sociopaths ... that view themselves as predictors and everybody else as prey.
but then there is this recent item: Psychologists Have Uncovered a
Troubling Feature of People Who Seem Nice All the Time
http://mic.com/articles/92479/psychologists-have-uncovered-a-troubling-feature-of-people-who-seem-too-nice
and from today
The age of entitlement: how wealth breeds narcissism
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/08/the-age-of-entitlement-how-wealth-breeds-narcissism
As people get richer, they are more likely to feel entitled, to exploit
others, and to cheat. That extends to politics too
... snip ...
so what is cause and what is effect?
and from thread over in google+
https://plus.google.com/102794881687002297268/posts/graE4mQ2H35
In Banking World, Fraud Is an Epidemic
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/24431-banks-systemic-corruption-and-governments-conflict-of-interest
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:18:02 -0400Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Amid barrage of rockets, Iron Dome makes 2nd interception over greater Tel Aviv Date: 08 July 2014 Blog: FacebookAmid barrage of rockets, Iron Dome makes 2nd interception over greater Tel Aviv
better than patriot: That Time an Air Force F-16 and an Army Missile
Battery Fought Each Other
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/that-time-an-air-force-f-16-and-an-army-missile-battery-fought-each-other-bb89d7d03b7d
possibly even zero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Postol
past posts mentioning Iron Dome
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#41 Rafael Team with Raytheon to Offer Iron Dome in the U.S
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#39 Beyond Patriot? The Multinational MEADS Air Defense Program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#49 Early use of the word "computer"
related to Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal Date: 09 July 2014 Blog: IBMersre:
The Future Is Cloudy For Buffett's Investment In IBM
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2305625-the-future-is-cloudy-for-buffetts-investment-in-ibm
re: Cloudy article; There is big overlap in the technology used for supercomputers and the large cloud datacenters. The recent articles are that market is almost totally dominated by (free) Linux, not (proprietary) UNIXes. With the move to cloud, the commoditizing of x86 can be viewed as putting downward pressure on x86 profits. The other view is still producing x86 could be turned to competitive advantage in cloud services (this has been raised in articles about HP's approach).
a couple recent posts with reference to Linux dominance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#59 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#69 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#79 EBFAS
recent reference to HP approach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#65 Is end of mainframe near ?
other recent postings in IBMers blog
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#77 Why IBM Is Tumbling: BRIC Sales Plunge, Total Revenue Lowest Since 2009
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#1 Why IBM Is Tumbling: BRIC Sales Plunge, Total Revenue Lowest Since 2009
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#15 Why IBM Is Tumbling: BRIC Sales Plunge, Total Revenue Lowest Since 2009
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#54 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#80 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#2 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#4 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#8 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#12 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#14 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#20 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#28 Does IBM CEO Rometty Understand Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#49 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#53 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#56 China Wants Banks To Remove High-End IBM Servers Amid Spy Dispute
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#57 Interesting and somewhat disturbing article about IBM in BusinessWeek. What is your opinion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#62 Interesting and somewhat disturbing article about IBM in BusinessWeek. What is your opinion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#94 Why Financialization Has Run Amok
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#98 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#24 IBM Opens New SoftLayer Data Center In Hong Kong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#47 Are you tired of the negative comments about IBM in this community?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#61 Are you tired of the negative comments about IBM in this community?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#65 Are you tired of the negative comments about IBM in this community?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#89 IBM, Lenovo server deal potentially scuppered over security
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: "F[R]eebie" software Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 9 Jul 2014 08:21:01 -0700edjaffe@PHOENIXSOFTWARE.COM (Ed Jaffe) writes:
23Jun1969 unbundling, started charging for (application) software, but made the case that kernel software should still be free. This changed in last half of 70s, with the rise of clone processors (largely enabled by the lack of IBM mainframe offerings during the Future System period) and decision to also starting to charge for kernel software.
the OCO-wars in the 80s was there was enormous benefit to source being readily available ... including a huge amount of innovation is enabled with the availability of source (line about if you aren't innovating, you are dying ... albeit possibly slowly).
the recent articles about near total dominance of Linux in supercomputers and large cloud megadatacenters can confuse the two issues: source/innovation and free. An enormous amount of innovation was required for current supercomputers and cloud megadatacenters (which have significant overlap in technologies and both required readily available source, there are even articles about research institutions using credit card to spin up ondemand large significant supercomputers from big cloud providers). The source & free issues are confused in this scenario, since once significant innovation has been demonstrated, the proprietary, closed products can copy the innovation ... but faced with providing sufficient added value to compete with something that is also free.
IBM was at times notorious for using FUD (as alternative to added value) as countermeasure. This could be seen in the traditional MVS & communication group when the human factors studies were showing cost/benefit of .25sec response for interactive computing (neither MVS system nor 3274/3278 hardware were even close to .25sec response ballpark)
also as previously noted, parts of IBM had enormously bloated
infrastructures that distorted pricing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
earlier posts in preceeding thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#99 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#103 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#105 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#106 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#107 CMS Editors was TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging?
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 9 Jul 2014 10:54:30 -0700lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
In Aug1976, Tymshare started offering its CMS-based online computer
conferencing to SHARE for free (as VMSHARE), archives
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
One of the entries mentioning OCO
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/read.cgi?fn=SES&ft=PROB&line=401
from above:
After all, OCO and SES are nothing but capricious actions of IBM that
hinder our ability to provide good IBM-BASED computing for our users.
... snip ...
I had set up process with Tymshare to get regular copy of all the VMSHARE files ... for putting up on internal IBM systems and network, including the world-wide sales&marketing online HONE system. One of the big initial hurdles was getting around legal worried about customer information contaminating IBM employees.
old email mentioning vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare
posts mentioning HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
posts mentioning internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from
just about the beginning until sometime late 85 or early 86)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: You can make your workplace 'happy' Date: 10 July 2014 Blog: IBM Wild DucksYou can make your workplace 'happy'
Psychologists Have Uncovered a Troubling Feature of People Who Seem
Nice All the Time
http://mic.com/articles/92479/psychologists-have-uncovered-a-troubling-feature-of-people-who-seem-too-nice
another word would be sycophants ... from "Computer Wars: The Post-IBM
World" Ferguson & Morris on failure of Future System:
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy and make
no waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM
lived in the shadow of defeat
... and:
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S
took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the
very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism
became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
some past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
(previously posted in this group) Boyd put it a slightly different way
"There are two career paths in front of you, and you have to choose
which path you will follow. One path leads to promotions, titles, and
positions of distinction.... The other path leads to doing things that
are truly significant for the Air Force, but the rewards will quite
often be a kick in the stomach because you may have to cross swords
with the party line on occasion. You can't go down both paths, you
have to choose. Do you want to be a man of distinction or do you want
to do things that really influence the shape of the Air Force? To be
or to do, that is the question." Colonel John R. Boyd, USAF 1927-1997
From the dedication of Boyd Hall, United States Air Force Weapons
School, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. 17 September 1999
... snip ...
I use to sponsor Boyd's briefings at IBM, the first time, I attempted to get Boyd's briefings done through the employee education department. They initially agreed, but as I provided them more information about Patterns of Conflict (later "Organic Design for Command & Control" was also added), they changed their mind. They said that IBM spends a lot of money educating managers on the handling of employees and they thought exposing general employees to Boyd would be counter-productive (i.e. somewhat viewed management/employee relations as competitive). They suggested that I restrict attendance to Boyd's briefings to only senior members of competitive analysis departments.
He had been known as "40-second Boyd" when he was instructor at Nellis for open challenge to every fighter pilot in the world, he would give them the advantage on his tail and reverse it within 40-seconds; he never lost doing it in under 20secs (he made the bet for 40sec in case there was somebody in the world almost as good as he was). Later he was head of the "fighter mafia" responsible for the F16, F18, A10 and redesign of the F15 and the Air Force brass hated him for it, trying to turn the USAF into a bomber-only organization. By the time of his passing, the USAF had disowned him and it was the Marines that were at Arlington. Circa 1990, the commandant of the Corp had leveraged Boyd for Marine Corps make-over ... and we still have annual conference at the Marine Corps Univ (frequent references that nearly the only people that make it in large organization are the ones that choose the career path of "distinction").
another recent study
The Top 10 Jobs That Attract Psychopaths
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/01/05/the-top-10-jobs-that-attract-psychopaths/
In Aug1976, Tymshare started offering its CMS-based online computer
conferencing to (IBM user group) SHARE for free (as VMSHARE), archives
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
One of the entries mentioning OCO
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/read.cgi?fn=SES&ft=PROB&line=401
After all, OCO and SES are nothing but capricious actions of IBM that
hinder our ability to provide good IBM-BASED computing for our users.
... snip ...
I had set up process with Tymshare to get regular copy of all the VMSHARE files ... for putting up on internal IBM systems and network, including the world-wide sales&marketing online HONE system. One of the big initial hurdles was getting around legal worried about customer information contaminating IBM employees.
I was blamed for online computer conferencing on the IBM internal
network in the late 70s and early 80s. Folklore is that when the
executive committee was told about online computer conferencing (and
the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me. Part of that activity
acquired the label "Tandem Memos" ... from IBMJARGON:
Tandem Memos - n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh
of breath air (sic). That's another Tandem Memos. A phrase to worry
middle management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and
also constructively criticized the way products were [are]
developed. The memos are required reading for anyone with a serious
interest in quality products. If you have not seen the memos, try
reading the November 1981 Datamation summary.
... snip ...
When Jim Gray left IBM for Tandem, he palmed a bunch of stuff on me. Afterwards, I would periodically go by and visit Jim and the above started out as distribution of Tandem visit trip report. There use to be a joke that I worked 4-shift week, 1st shift in bldg. 28, 2nd shift playing disk engineer across the street in bldgs. 14&15, 3rd shift down in STL (now silicon valley lab), and 4th shift (weekends) up the valley at the consolidated US HONE datacenter (trivia: when Facebook first moved to the valley it was into a new bldg built next door to the former US HONE datacenter).
as an aside ... there were comments that if any other computer company had a failure the magnitude of IBM's "Future System", they wouldn't have survived. I continued to work on 360/370 stuff during the period and would periodically ridicule the "Future System" stuff ... which possibly wasn't the best career enhancing activity.
During the FS period, 370 efforts were being suspended &/or killed off (FS was going to completely replace 370). The lack of 370 products during the FS period is then credited with giving the clone processors a market foothold. The rise of clone processors then is major motivation in the transition to OCO (object code only) trying to protect IBM's position. However, the availability of source for IBM's customers had been a major source of innovation.
past posts mentioning HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
past posts mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
posts & WEB URLs referencing Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
other recent IBM "wild duck" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#52 IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#93 Maximizing shareholder value: The Goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#97 Where does the term Wild Duck come from?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#98 How to groom a leader?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#105 Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#52 First 2014 Golden Goose Award to physicist Larry Smarr
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#53 Not Wild Ducks but Wild Geese - The history behind the story
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#54 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#8 Microsoft culture must change, chairman says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#91 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#33 Can Ginni really lead the company to the next great product line?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#59 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#65 Are you tired of the negative comments about IBM in this community?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#68 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#79 EBFAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#80 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: With hindsight, what would you have done? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:43:48 -0400"gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> writes:
1) reaction to the enormous complexity of the Future System effort
... that eventually implodes w/o even being announced (some comments at
the time that if any other company had such a monumental failure, they
wouldn't have survived) ... to go to the opposite extreme
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
2) be able to implement in single chip.
John passed away
https://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/press/us/en/pressrelease/22052.wss
from above:
John's concept of the RISC resulted from his detailed study of the
trade-offs between high performance machine organization and compiler
optimization technology. He recognized that an appropriately defined set
of machine instructions, program controls, and programs produced by a
compiler -- carefully designed to exploit the instruction set -- could
realize a very high performance processor with relatively few
circuits. Critical to the success of RISC was the concept of an
optimizing compiler able to use the reduced instruction set very
efficiently and maximize performance of the machine. John's RISC concept
was contrary to the established direction of the functionally more
complex instruction sets and machines. RISC was a fundamentally new
concept in system design.
... snip ...
IBM ACS & John
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_cocke.html
from above:
The idea for the ACS design started with John Cocke's vision of a
scientific supercomputer. He had previously worked on the IBM Stretch
and along with Harwood Kolsky was instrumental in developing a simulator
to explore design options. Cocke then worked with Fred Brooks and Gerrit
Blaauw (also Stretch veterans) and Gene Amdahl on the 8106 processor
(which was based on Blaauw's 70AB design dating from work on the 7070
processor) and the 8112 attached floating-point unit. (The 8000 series
was canceled on the recommendation of Bob Evans because of his concern
over product proliferation; the attempt at compatibility across the 8000
product line later played a role in the SPREAD report calling for a
compatible NPL [New Product Line], which was later renamed System/360
[for "360 degrees of data processing"]).
... snip ...
also
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/risc/
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: With hindsight, what would you have done? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 12:32:47 -0400Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
they were doing some simulation stuff with 68k earlier ... but 1981,
ROMP, 45,000 transisters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROMP
follow-on was RIOS ... but was 6chips
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER1
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_POWER_microprocessors
note there were other 801 projects using Iliad chips ... in parallel
with ROMP. Iliad use included being native microprocessor for entry
& mid-range 370s ... which never shipped. Los Gatos VLSI lab was
doing "Blue Iliad" ... first 32bit 801 ... large and really hot (was
expected to run around thirty native mips (modulo cache misses). old
posts with various old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#7 32 or even 64 registers for x86-64?
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#38 To RISC or not to RISC
this mentionins Blue Iliad going to fab Feb1982 for 1st pass parts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#email810422
the original as/400 (s/36&s/38 replacement) was also suppose to be iliad
risc chip ... but switched to cisc chip. later in the 90s ... as/400
finally did switch to 801/risc ... now called "system i"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i
posts mentioning 801, risc, romp, rios, iliad, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
other past posts mentioning blue iliad:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#25 Merced & compilers (was Re: Effect of speed ... )
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#66 System/1 ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#16 Computer of the century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#60 "all-out" vs less aggressive designs (was: Re: 36 to 32 bit transition)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#39 "Soul of a New Machine" Computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#55 Multics hardware (was Re: "Soul of a New Machine" Computer?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#27 End of Moore's law and how it can influence job market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#3 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#69 unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#3 Ping: Anne & Lynn Wheeler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#28 [Meta] Marketplace argument
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#21 First single chip 32-bit microprocessor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#30 First single chip 32-bit microprocessor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#37 History: How did Forth get its stacks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#31 To RISC or not to RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#17 MIPS and RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#53 Drums: Memory or Peripheral?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#56 performance of hardware dynamic scheduling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#63 What happened to computer architecture (and comp.arch?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#20 Processes' memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#29 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#54 Processes' memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#7 "Unhackable" Infineon Chip Physically Cracked - PCWorld
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#3 "Unhackable" Infineon Chip Physically Cracked - PCWorld
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#78 Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#82 Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#83 Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#42 IBM zEnterprise Announced
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#82 Hashing for DISTINCT or GROUP BY in SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#16 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#24 Supervisory Processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#82 zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#0 By Any Other Name
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#8 DEC Demise (was IBM commitment to academia)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#39 model numbers; was re: World's worst programming environment?
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives Date: 12 July 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityMaybe, instead of focusing on headline grabbing big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
Deferred prosecution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_prosecution
sometimes a too big to fail would repeatedly escape with DPA for repeating the same offenses.
This goes into some detail with explanation that the FEDs appear to be
trying to avoid another Arthur Anderson (excuse of failing to obtain
conviction just obfuscation and misdirection) ... creating the
too big to prosecute and too big to jail
http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/sites/default/files/WorkingPaper14-04.pdf
This has financial mess last decade, 70 times larger than S&L crisis
where there was more than 1000 criminal conviction ... implication
that there should have been 70,000 criminal convictions this time
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/03/30000-criminal-referrals-led-1000-felony-convictions-major-fraud-cases-sl-crisis-even-single-prosecution-today-even-though-2008-crisis-70-times-bigger.html
Related to Arthur Anderson reference, rhetoric in congress on passing Sarbanes-Oxley was that everybody (executives, auditors, board) signing a public company financial filing with incorrect numbers is guaranteed to do jail time. However it requires SEC to do something. Possibly because even GAO doesn't think SEC is doing anything, last decade GAO was doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings, even showing increases after SOX passes (and nobody doing jail time). SOX enormously reduced effort required to obtain criminal conviction.
This includes account of whistleblower at too-big-to-fail last decade
notifying people that would be signing financial filing with incorrect
numbers ... and the testimony being sealed until after the statute of
limitation expires
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/24427-follow-the-money-how-finance-keeps-the-whip-hand
Jan2009 I was asked to HTML'ize (turn into web pages) the 1930s Senate Pecora hearings (that resulted in several criminal convictions from the crash of '29; had been scanned fall2008 at Boston Public Library) with enormous number of internal cross-links and lots of URLs between what happened this time and what happened then (comments that there was some expectations that the new congress would have appetite to do something). I worked on it for sometime and then got a call that it wouldn't be needed after all (references to enormous piles of wallstreet cash completely burying capital hill).
There are periodic references in local Washington press about it all being Kabuki Theater ... that what you see has nothing at all with what is really go on (and frequently being used as distraction)
from reference that last decade was 70 times larger than S&L mess:
In the Savings and Loan debacle, our agency that regulated Savings and
Loans - the OTS - made over 30,000 criminal referrals. Produced over
1,000 felony convictions just in cases designated as major.
... and
• Fast forward to the current time. The same agency - Office of Thrift
Supervision - which was supposed to regulate many of the largest
makers of liar's loans in the country has made ... zero criminal
referrals.
• The Office of Comptroller of the Currency - which is supposed to
regulate the largest national banks has made zero criminal referrals.
• The Fed appears to have made zero criminal referrals.
• The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is smart enough to refuse
to answer the question.
... snip ...
and that doesn't even get into what SEC could do under SOX and fraudulent financial filings. Note also that in the congressional Madoff hearings, they had the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff (SEC hands were finally forced when Madoff turned himself in).
and some reference from FDIC whistleblower:
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140627055009-20494629-reaching-for-yield-in-all-the-wrong-places-why-banks-took-a-crooked-path
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140623054912-20494629-too-large-to-supervise-by-any-of-the-u-s-regulatory-agencies
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140615082923-20494629-why-the-fdic-chairman-knew-more-than-she-let-on
as an aside, one of the above references Basel II ... some trivia ... the original Basel II draft included a new qualitative section and we were asked into NYFED to discuss how it could be implemented ... however during the review process, nearly everything was dropped (mostly on behalf of large US institutions)
posts mentioning too big to fail, too big to prosecute and too
big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
posts mentioning Enron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
posts mentioning Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
posts mentioning Sarbanes Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
posts mentioning fraudulent financial filings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
posts mentioning Pecora hearings &/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
posts mentioning whistleblower
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
posts mentioning Kabuki Theater
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
posts mentioning toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:55:18 -0400Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
upthread reference to PVM being enhanced in late 70s to simulate 3270
with ascii topaz/3101 glass teletype running in "block mode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#71 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
references this post with couple old emails from late 1979 and early
1980
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#0 Why so little parallelism
and then PVM 3270 simulation interface got significantly more
sophisticated with support for "PCTERM" running in IBM/PC. other
recent reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#49 Before the Internet: The golden age of online service
and more old email refs in this post upthread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#77 The Tragedy of Rapid Evoluation?
there is some amount of "Yale IUP" discussion in the vmshare archives
(cms-based online computer conferencing tymshare made available to SHARE
starting in Aug1976)
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
some of the discussions with "Yale IUP" reference:
NOTE YALEPTF2 Fixes for Yale 3270 IUP Version 2.2 (=Host-Load version 1.1)
NOTE YALEPTFS Problems and fixes to the December 1, 1983 PID version of IBM Series/1 Yale
NOTE SET7171 SET7171 TITLE 'HOST SETUP FUNCTIONS FOR THE IBM 7171' 00001000
PROB 7171DTR Does the failure of the 7171 to drop DTR affect your site?
PROB 7171 7171 problems
PROB 4994 4994 versus 'Real' Series/1
PROB YALE3277 Problems with use of Series/1 running Yale IUP simulating 3277s
PROB LEEDATA We are having a couple of problems with Lee Data terminals.
PROB DROP_DTR Does anyone know how to get the 7171 to drop DTR after logoff ???
PROB APLEE Problems installing the APL Extended Editor IUP 5796-PLY
MEMO 7171 Discussion of the IBM 7171 ASCII Terminal Front End
MEMO 4994ASCI INFO ON 4994 ASCII DEVICE CONTROL UNIT(HOST LOADED YALE)
MEMO YIUPUSER List of Yale IUP / Series1 Users:
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb Date: 13 July 2014 Blog: Facebookre:
more cyber dumb
Chinese Hackers Stole Boeing, Lockheed Military Plane Secrets: Feds
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/chinese-hackers-stole-boeing-lockheed-military-plane-secrets-feds-n153951
Chinese businessman charged with hacking Boeing, Lockheed Martin
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/chinese-businessman-charged-with-hacking-boeing-and-lockheed/
Chinese man accused of hacking into US computers
http://phys.org/news/2014-07-chinese-accused-hacking.html
U.S. Accuses Chinese Executive of Hacking to Mine Military Data
http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-accuses-chinese-executive-of-hacking-to-find-military-data-1405105264?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
U.S. Accuses Chinese Executive of Hacking to Mine Military Data
http://www.fedcyber.com/2014/07/12/u-s-accuses-chinese-executive-of-hacking-to-mine-military-data/
Chinese Hackers Infiltrate Firms Using Malware-Laden Handheld Scanners
http://yro-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/07/12/0416202/chinese-hackers-infiltrate-firms-using-malware-laden-handheld-scanners
Chinese Hackers Infiltrate Firms Using Malware-Laden Handheld Scanners
http://slashdot.org/submission/3690447/chinese-hackers-infiltrate-firms-using-malware-laden-handheld-scanners
a little To Be or To Do:
Cyber Labor Shortage Not What it Seems, Experts Say
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2014/August/Pages/CyberLaborShortageNotWhatitSeemsExpertsSay.aspx
from above:
Businesses and government agencies are engaged in a dogfight over cyber
security talent, or so the conventional thinking goes. The shortage of
qualified cyber security personnel continues to cause hand-wringing
inside the beltway.
That is mostly still true, but the situation is more nuanced, said Alan
Paller, co-founder of the CyberAces nonprofit, who also chaired a
Department of Homeland Security task force on cyber job vacancies.
"There is no shortage of people who can talk and write about cyber
security," he said in an interview. "The shortage is in the people who
actually have the hands-on skills to quickly find the infections, get
rid of them and do good incident handling. Those skills are very rare."
U.S. universities are cranking out plenty of graduates with cyber
security related degrees, but they have mostly studied policy, he
said. Many of those graduates aren't getting good jobs. Faculty
members don't have real-world skills, so they are not teaching how to
perform complicated tasks such as application penetration testing,
advanced memory forensics or wireless hacker exploit development.
... snip ...
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM & Boyd Date: 13 July 2014 Blog: FacebookI was in middle of a move from the cambridge scientific center to san jose research and had just applied for a mortgage at home savings ... at the time the approval process took 4-6 weeks. That same week the IBM SE on the account (who wrote quite a bit of their application code and done transaction implementation for their new ATM machines on VM370/CMS running on 370/158 would outperform ACP/TPF on 370/168 ) had me down to their hdqtrs in LA for meetings with the CIO and some of the other people. The SE happened to mention that I was in the process of getting a loan with them. The CIO apologized for not being able to give me the employee discount on the mortgage rate; however the approval was waiting for me when I got back to San Jose.
as an aside, a large part of my career was doing stuff in spite of IBM
... and I was constantly being told that I had no career with the
company because I was just interested in getting things done. Not long
later I met John Boyd and would sponsor his briefings at IBM:
"There are two career paths in front of you, and you have to choose
which path you will follow. One path leads to promotions, titles, and
positions of distinction.... The other path leads to doing things that
are truly significant for the Air Force, but the rewards will quite
often be a kick in the stomach because you may have to cross swords
with the party line on occasion. You can't go down both paths, you
have to choose. Do you want to be a man of distinction or do you want
to do things that really influence the shape of the Air Force? To be
or to do, that is the question." Colonel John R. Boyd, USAF 1927-1997
From the dedication of Boyd Hall, United States Air Force Weapons
School, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. 17 September 1999
... snip ...
In Boyd's briefings he would reference that US military had become
increasingly rigid, top-down, command&control ... and that it was
starting to contaminate US corporate culture as former military
officers were starting to climb corporate ladder. He had gone from "40
sec Boyd" (as instructor at Nellis where he had outstanding challenge
to all fighter pilots in the world that he would give them advantage
on his tail and he would reverse it in 40secs ... he managed to always
do it in 20secs, but he allowed a little extra time in case there was
somebody in the world almost as good as he was), to the head of the
fighter mafia (responsible for f16, f18, a10 and redesign of the f15;
when he was doing the F16, the F15 forces attempted to side-track him
with bogus fraud charges that would have put in leavenworth for the
rest of his life), to the head of the military reform movement (in the
80s there were still members of congress that would provide cover for
his efforts against the enormous corruption in the pentagon ... but in
the 90s, congress had been pretty well subverted also). Remember
Eisenhower in his goodby speech warned about the military-industrial
complex (folklore was that it was originally going to be
military-industrial-congressional complex, but he shortened it at the
last minute).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
By the time of his passing, the air force had pretty much disowned him, it was the marines at arlington, and all his effects went to quantico (circa 1990, the commandant had leveraged Boyd for marines make-over).
The 1st time I sponsored Boyd's briefing at IBM (it was just Patterns
of Conflict), I tried to do it through IBM employee
education. Initially they agreed, but as I provided them more
information, they changed their mind saying that IBM puts in great
deal of effort into managers managing employees and it wouldn't be in
the best interest of IBM to expose general employees to Boyd
(suggesting that attendance be limited to senior members of
competitive analysis depts). Patterns of Conflict reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_of_Conflict
the briefing has over 200 sources at the end. Most of the references are in his library at Quantico and are heavily worn and underlined.
possibly as punishment for vocal opposition ... he was given a stint
in command of "spook base" ... he would say that the datacenter was
the largest airconditioned bldg in that part of the world ... largely
IBM computers (bio says it was $2.5B windfall for IBM, something like
$17+B today) ... ref gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
about the same time I was undergraduate ... but had been brought into boeing to help form boeing computer services ... sort of akin to early cloud like operation ... consolidate all of boeing dataprocessing into a separate business unit to better monetize the investment ... including being able to offer services to non-Boeing entities (Boeing Renton datacenter claimed to be nearly $300M in IBM computers, about 1/10th spook base). I'm a full-time Boeing employee at the time I graduate and have to choose between staying with Boeing or going to the IBM cambridge science center.
oh, from Patterns of Conflict wiki reference (something that is
periodically repeated in a number of references):
Based on Patterns and the work that followed, Boyd has been called
"America's greatest military theorist".
Hugh Laurie's (TVs house) wrote noval ("Gun Seller") on MICC & MICC
corruption (also referencing Boyd and his OODA-loop):
The day Alexander Woolf decided to take on the military-industrial
complex was the day everything changed. For him, for his family, for
his business. Things changed quickly, and they changed for
good. Roused from its slumber, the military-industrial complex lifted
a great, lazy paw, and swatted him away, as if he were no more than a
human being. They canceled his existing contracts and withdrew
possible future ones. They bankrupted his suppliers, disrupted his
labour force, and investigated him for tax evasion. They bought his
company's stock in a few months and sold it in a few hours, and when
that didn't do the trick, they accused him of trading in
narcotics. They even had him thrown out of the St Regis, for not
replacing a fairway divot.
... snip ...
and an unrelated To Be or To Do from Chet
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/2014/07/16/zen-pundit-on-american-spartan/
posts & URL references mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives Date: 13 July 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
In the Oct2008 congressional hearings into the pivotal role that the rating agencies played in the financial mess, they had lots of testimony that both the sellers and rating agencies knew the securitized loans weren't worth triple-A ... but the rating agencies were specifically being paid for the triple-A ratings. Securitized mortigages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages, but there wasn't much of a market (the triple-A ratings opened the market to institutions and retirement funds that are restricted to only dealing in "safe" investments). During the hearings one of the TV news people commented that the rating agencies would be able to blackmail the gov. and avoid federal prosecution.
In the late 90s we were asked to work on improving the integrity of supporting documents in securitized mortgages (as countermeasure to the fraudulent mortgages from the S&L crisis). However, when loan originators learned that the could pay for triple-A ratings, they no longer needed supporting documents (triple-A rating trumps documents) and they could start doing no-documentation (no-down, liar) loans (no documents, no longer an integrity issue)
About the same time, we had also been brought in to help wordsmith the
Cal. state electronic signature act. Then in the early part of the
century we were asked to participate in standards meetings at the
mortgage bankers association (when they had the bldg. across the park
from the IMF and world bank) looking what would be required for
electronic mortgage documents. However, nothing much seemed to happen,
MERS just went ahead anyway. recent posts mentioning MERS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#44 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#28 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#70 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#46 Wells Fargo made up on-demand foreclosure papers plan: court filing charges
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#111 Maine Supreme Court Hands Major Defeat to MERS Mortgage Registry
However, from the law of unintended consequences, the lack of documents
1) when there was still some fiction that TARP funds would be used for purchase of (off-book) toxic assets, there was articles about the difficulty in valuing those assets (in large part because of the lack of supporting documents)
2) lack of documents also motivates the robo-signing fraudulent documents for foreclosures.
there is also a lot of misdirection regarding many large institutional
retirement funds buying those triple-A rated toxic assets. As an
aside, over $27T were done during the financial mess (claims were that
during the mess, it was major factor in wallstreet increasing by
factor of three times as percent of GDP)
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
there was only $700B appropriated for TARP ... but the end of 2008
just the four largest too big to fail were still carrying $5.2T
"off-book"
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
Earlier in 2008, several tens of billions of toxic assets had gone for 22cents on the dollar. If 1) the toxic assets were brought back on book and "mark to market", the institutions would be declared insolvent and liquidated, 2) if TARP purchased the toxic assets at the going price, the institutions would be declared insolvent and liquidated; however TARP would have required $1.2T to clear the $5.2T just for the four largest too big to fail (but would have also left them insolvent; that was major motivation for it being handled behind the scenes by federal reserve, which fought in court for a year to try and prevent release of what it was doing).
Citigroup's $7 Billion Fraud Deal: The Clique's Still Clicking in DC
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/citigroups-7-billion-frau_b_5576495.html
as aside, folklore from the period was that the president was
originally going to veto GLBA ... having originally passed pretty much
along party lines ... however, they went back and added several
amendments and it finally passes with veto-proof Senate 90-8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act
posts mentioning toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
posts mentionint too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives Date: 14 July 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
... also note that Rubin had previously come from running Goldman and
the Treasury Secretary last decade (during the economic mess), had
also come from Goldman (the vast number of Goldman alumni giving rise
to comments about treasury was Goldman's branch office in washington)
... and Gramm is #2 on Time's list of those responsible for the
economic mess ... for both repeal of glass-steagall and blocking
regulation of (gambling) CDS:
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
and when head of CFTC proposes regulating CDS, she is replaced with
Gramm's wife
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/17grammside.html
from above:
Enron was a major contributor to Mr. Gramm's political campaigns, and
Mr. Gramm's wife, Wendy, served on the Enron board, which she joined
after stepping down as chairwoman of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
... and
https://web.archive.org/web/20080711114839/http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-01-15/news/phil-gramm-s-enron-favor/
from above:
A few days after she got the ball rolling on the exemption, Wendy
Gramm resigned from the commission. Enron soon appointed her to its
board of directors, where she served on the audit committee, which
oversees the inner financial workings of the corporation. For this,
the company paid her between $915,000 and $1.85 million in stocks and
dividends, as much as $50,000 in annual salary, and $176,000 in
attendance fees,
... snip ...
and when AIG was negotiating to pay off CDS bets at 50-60 cents on the dollar, the treasury secretary (#6 on times list of those responsible) steps in and tells them that they can't pay off at less than 100 cents on the dollar, that they have to accept TARP funds (to pay off the CDS bets) and sign a document giving up any rights to sue those that it is paying off (and major beneficiary was institution that the treasury secretary had previously run). Then there is head of SEC last decade, #4 on times list of those responsible.
Citigroup Pays Just $7 Billion For Causing Financial Crisis
http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/07/14/citigroup-pays-just-7-billion-for-causing-financial-crisis/
Citigroup and U.S. Reach $7 Billion Mortgage Settlement
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/citigroup-and-u-s-reach-7-billion-mortgage-settlement/?smid=tw-share
Citi Masks Crashing Mortgage, Trading Revenues With $3.8 Billion
Settlement Charge
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-14/citi-masks-crashing-mortgage-trading-revenues-38-billion-settlement-charge
posts mentioning Pecora hearings &/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
posts mentioning toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
posts mentionint too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
posts mentioning Enron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: R.I.P. PDP-10? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:40:44 -0400Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
from above:
Virtual memory on the 360/40 was achieved by placing a 64 word
associative array between the CPU address generation circuits and the
memory addressing logic. The array was activated via mode switch logic
in the PSW and was turned off whenever a hardware interrupt occurred.
The 64 words were designed to give us a relocate mechanism for each 4k
bytes of our 256K bytes memory. Relocation was achieved by loading a
user number in the search argument register of the associative array,
turning on relocate mode and presenting a CPU address. The match with
user number and address would result in a word selected in the
associative array. The position of the word 0-64 would yield the high
order 6 bits of a memory address. Because of a rather loose cycle time
this was accomplished on the 360/40 with no degradation of the overall
memory cycle. In addition to the translate function, the associative
array was used to record the hardware use and changed statue and our
software noted transient and locked conditions relative to a
particular block of 4K bytes in the memory.
Since the array functioned a content addressable store when in
supervisor state, searches to satisfy the LRU algorithm were quite
fast.
... snip ...
note the 67 dat box handled 32bit (virtual) addresses to 24bit real memory address.
the 3033 had inverse hack ... 370 24bit instruction (virtual&real) addressing. the 370 page table entry was 16bits, 12bit (real) page number, 2 bits defined and 2 bits undefined. they co-opted the 2 undefined bits to prepend to the real page number for 14bit real page number (26bit addressing or 64mbytes).
recent cp40 refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#23 [OT ] Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#56 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#103 Microsoft publishes MS-DOS, Word for Windows source code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#95 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#99 IBM architecture, was Fifty Years of nitpicking definitions, was BASIC,theProgrammingLanguageT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#108 PDP-11 architecture, was There Is Still Hope
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: R.I.P. PDP-10? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 15:03:10 -0400Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
True LRU has unfortunate side-effect that it degrades to FIFO under stress/pathelogical conditions.
There is separate issue with (clock) Global LRU versus Local LRU ... that I've written in the past about ... having done Global LRU as undergraduate in the 60s (when there was academic literature was about Local LRU) ... and then did a hack on (clock GlobaL) approximate LRU that degraded to essentially random (rather than FIFO) ... which tended to always have better performance than "True LRU" (true LRU ordering of all real pages).
past posts mentioning replacement algorithm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#clock
old posts about Jim Gray asking me to help co-worker at Tandem get his
stanford PHD in global LRU ... "local LRU" forces were trying to prevent
awarding the PHD:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#46
other recent posts mentioning above
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#14 23Jun1969 Unbundling Announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#97 IBM architecture, was Fifty Years of nitpicking definitions, was BASIC,theProgrammingLanguageT
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives Date: 15 July 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
DOJ Citigroup Settlement Lacks Disclosure Of Victims And Criminal Conduct
http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/07/15/doj-citigroup-settlement-lacks-disclosure-of-victims-and-criminal-conduct/
from above:
But, according to The Litigation Daily, the details of that
"wrongdoing" are nowhere to be found in the settlement documents,
raising questions as to whether DOJ gave Citigroup a special deal
regarding disclosure. Was part of this "historic penalty" an exemption
from having to admit the crimes committed and the victims harmed?
... snip ...
What's Missing in Citigroup's $7 Billion RMBS Deal?
http://www.litigationdaily.com/id=1202663224458/Whats-Missing-in-Citigroups-7-Billion-RMBS-Deal
posts mentioning too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives Date: 16 July 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
Latest Citi "Let Bank Off Easy" Mortgage Settlement Shows Administration Disconnect
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/07/latest-citi-let-bank-easy-mortgage-settlement-shows-administration-disconnect.html
BlackRock, Pimco Sue Deutsche Bank, U.S. Bank Over Trustee Roles
Lawsuits Focus on More Than 2,000 Mortgage Bonds
http://online.wsj.com/articles/blackrock-pimco-sue-deutsche-bank-u-s-bank-over-trustee-roles-1403124442
Black Rock and PIMCO Sue Banks for $250 Billion Did the Other Shoe Just Drop?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/16/did-the-other-shoe-just-drop/
BofA offers $13 billion to settle mortgage probe: WSJ
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/16/us-bankofamerica-settlement-idUSKBN0FL1U620140716
Bank of America offering $13 billion to resolve probe
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101838659
UPDATE 5-Litigation costs hit Bank of America's quarterly profit
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/16/bank-of-america-results-idUSL4N0PR3H020140716
Bank of America posts earnings of 19 cents a share vs. 29 cents estimate
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101838220
and
EGREGIOUS FRAUDSTER: INTRODUCING BOB RUBIN'S CITICORP
http://www.economonitor.com/lrwray/2014/07/16/egregious-fraudster-introducing-bob-rubins-citicorp-2/
from above:
the best estimate of economists right now is that we lost $21
trillion-a trillion is a thousand billion-$21 trillion in lost
productivity as a result of the Great Recession that is a direct
result of this epidemic of these kinds of fraud. And we lost 10
million American jobs.
... snip ...
posts mentioning toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
posts mentionint too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: US No Longer Tech Leader in Military War Gear Date: 16 July 2014 Blog: FacebookUS No Longer Tech Leader in Military War Gear
Pentagon's big budget F-35 fighter 'can't turn, can't climb, can't run'
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/07/14/pentagons-big-budget-f-35-fighter-cant-turn-cant-climb-cant-run/
The U.S. Is No Longer The Leader In Military Tech
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-us-is-no-longer-leader-in-military.html
Why the World's Armies Don't Want U.S. Tech Anymore
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/14/why-the-world-s-armies-don-t-want-u-s-tech-anymore.html
A Boyd story about trying to sell F20/tigershark for export. For all candidate countries, the F16 forces got congress to pass "directed appropriations" foreign aid ... that could only be used to buy F16. The countries were then faced with buy F20 more appropriate for their needs (with their own money) or getting F16s for "free". It was pointed out as part of the subsidy for the military-industrial complex ... w/o actually showing up as part of DOD budget.
"National Insecurity" has somewhat similar story about getting UN votes for invasion of Iraq. Newly "free" eastern bloc countries were told if they voted for Iraq invasion, their membership in NATO would be backed and they would get foreign aid to buy NATO "compatible" equipment.
One of my issues is the "Cyber Dumb" thread ... which includes letting secrets/advantages leak ... along with cyber becoming increasingly dominant component of almost everything. That is separate from Spinney's theme of military-industrial complex using all sorts of strategies to maximize financial benefit. They can overlap.
Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the
Military-Industrial Complex (William D. Hartung)
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-Complex-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
pg180/loc3043-45:
For the Boeings and Lockheed Martins of the world, NATO expansion
spelled one thing: new markets. New NATO entrants would be required to
gradually discard their Soviet-era weapons and replace them with
systems that were compatible with those of other NATO member states
(meaning U.S. or European
pg196/loc3289-91:
In late 2003 Lockheed Martin succeeded in closing a deal with Poland
for $3.8 billion worth of F-16s. The sale was accompanied by a
subsidized loan that covered 100 percent of the cost of the jets, with
a below-market interest rate and no payments required for the first
eight years.
pg196/locc3294-96:
But the costs to the United States went beyond just a subsidized
loan. The deal included roughly $3 billion in promised
"offsets"--various ways of steering business to Poland to
counterbalance the vast sums it was spending on the F-16. The most
obvious examples included an agreement to produce the engines for the
aircraft in Poland.
pg197/loc3305-7:
In some respects, Jackson's work on behalf of NATO expansion was just
a tune-up for the campaign he helped to run in support of the 2003
Bush administration intervention in Iraq.
pg197/loc3308-14:
As a co-founder of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a
neoconservative network augmented by the membership of a few Democrats
like Peter Galbraith and former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, Jackson
worked directly with the Bush administration in the marketing of the
war. In fact, according to Jackson himself, the White House asked him
to "do for Iraq what you did for NATO."17 Jackson even found a way to
link the two efforts. One of his most important contributions was
drafting a letter that was signed by the presidents of the "Vilnius
Ten"--a bloc of major central and eastern European nations that
Jackson and others were pressing to have admitted en masse to NATO in
its next round of expansion. The letter essentially endorsed an
invasion of Iraq to deal with Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass
destruction.
pg198/loc3319-20:
Jackson reportedly told officials from some of the countries that
supporting the Iraq war would increase their chances of being included
in NATO in the next round of expansion.
... snip ...
posts & URLs referencing Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
military industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
team b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
past posts mentioning prophets of war:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#54 NBC's website hacked with malware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#20 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#21 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#32 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#43 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#50 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#51 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#54 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#62 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#67 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#5 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#14 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#30 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#74 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#92 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#78 Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#80 The REAL Reason U.S. Targets Whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#31 An insider's story of the global attack on climate science
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#38 Can America Win Wars
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: IBM to sell Apples Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 16 Jul 2014 18:55:51 -07000000000433f07816-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
ibm then funded cmu for $50m, afs, encina, camelot, mach, etc
http://www.zois.co.uk/tpm/encina.html
then ibm provides seed money for transarc and then buys transarc
outright (for unix "cics")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transarc
Jobs uses MACH for Next
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_%28kernel%29
and then brings it back to apple for iOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29
Apple, IBM, and Motorola got together for AIM/Somerset to do
one chip power (801/risc)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_alliance
when IBM wasn't keeping up "power" low-power consumer chips, apple moved
from power to i86
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_transition_to_Intel_processors
ibm recently trying to breath new life into power
http://openpowerfoundation.org/
then there is PureSystems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureSystems
past posts mentioning 801, risc, iliad, romp, rios, power, power/pc, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
http://www.cringely.com/2014/06/04/decline-fall-ibm/
"The Decline and Fall of IBM: End of an American Icon?" loc1630-34:
AFTERWORD What if Ginni Doesn't Listen? Here's what the IBM insider I
quoted in my introduction says is coming today from Ginni Rometty's
office: "Ginni is betting the farm on PureSystems. She is also betting
the farm on Cloud. The problem is she is blaming flagging hardware sales
on Cloud-ification."
... snip ...
recent posts ref Ginni betting farm on PureSystem (& cloud)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#16 Emulating z CPs was: Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#21 Is end of mainframe near?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#24 IBM Opens New SoftLayer Data Center In Hong Kong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#27 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#33 Can Ginni really lead the company to the next great product line?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#46 Demonstrating Moore's law
earlier posts from the Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#43 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#46 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
references to vm370 cluster/ssi from late 70s and power scale from early 90s.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:36:32 -0400Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
... somewhat similar story about getting UN votes for invasion of Iraq. Newly "free" eastern bloc countries were told if they voted for Iraq invasion, their membership in NATO would be backed and they would get foreign aid to buy NATO "compatible" equipment.
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
from a Boyd acolyte
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
and then from long running "Cyber Dumb" thread:
Cyber Labor Shortage Not What it Seems, Experts Say
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2014/August/Pages/CyberLaborShortageNotWhatitSeemsExpertsSay.aspx
from above:
Businesses and government agencies are engaged in a dogfight over cyber
security talent, or so the conventional thinking goes. The shortage of
qualified cyber security personnel continues to cause hand-wringing
inside the beltway.
That is mostly still true, but the situation is more nuanced, said Alan
Paller, co-founder of the CyberAces nonprofit, who also chaired a
Department of Homeland Security task force on cyber job vacancies.
"There is no shortage of people who can talk and write about cyber
security," he said in an interview. "The shortage is in the people who
actually have the hands-on skills to quickly find the infections, get
rid of them and do good incident handling. Those skills are very rare."
U.S. universities are cranking out plenty of graduates with cyber
security related degrees, but they have mostly studied policy, he
said. Many of those graduates aren't getting good jobs. Faculty members
don't have real-world skills, so they are not teaching how to perform
complicated tasks such as application penetration testing, advanced
memory forensics or wireless hacker exploit development.
... snip ...
which is little topic drift on the massive amount of money that the
beltway bandits have sucked out of the infrastructure from series of
failing/canceled dataprocessing projects (frequently several billion at
a time) ... aka the spreading Success of Failure culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
and from another Boyd acolyte ... reference to DOD massive bloated
bureaucracy not able ... with a review of something at another blog:
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/2014/07/16/zen-pundit-on-american-spartan/
Still, Mark's point is spot on -- why do we always have to be the
redcoats and let the other guys hide behind rocks and trees? Why do we
keep doing dumb things? We don't always, and we haven't always, but
somehow, we've developed a knack for discarding winning tactics.
... snip ...
which overlaps both perpetual war (actually winning means that its
over) and Success Of Failure:
At least Boyd got to retire as a colonel.
... snip ...
Boyd past posts and URL refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:59:33 -0400re:
and some followup on this Success of Failure article (again related to
"Cyber Dumb")
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
ThinThread
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread
ThinThread
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/12/19/whistleblowers-vindicated-as-presidential-review-group-recommends-alternative-to-nsa-vacuuming-data/
Director shelves working $3M ThinThread for multi-billion dollar Trailblazer that doesn't work
https://news.yahoo.com/three-former-employees-became-nsa-critics-163808602.html
Director shelves working $3M ThinThread for multi-billion dollar Trailblazer that doesn't work
http://www.whistleblower.org/bio-william-binney-and-j-kirk-wiebe
Trailblazer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_Project
now Turbulence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence_%28NSA%29
posts mentioning Success of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Firefox is BLOATWARE! Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:36:44 -0400ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) writes:
when i started doing multiple tabs a decade ago ... things would slow
down at 100 or so ... but mozilla has gotten better on storage use
... and my machines have gotten bigger/faster. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#48 Mozilla v Firefox
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#50 Mozilla v Firefox
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#8 big endian vs. little endian, why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#15 1.8b2 / 1.7.11 tab performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#46 seamonkey default browser on fedora/kde?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#51 Intel abandons USEnet news
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#30 tab browsing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#35 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#24 Javascript disabled in Firefox
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#71 Mainframe programming vs the Web
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#85 Which of the latest browsers do you prefer and why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#72 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#61 Agents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#88 Parallel programming may not be so daunting
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:31:51 -0400re:
other news on things being used
GCHQ's "Chinese menu" of tools spreads disinformation across Internet
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/ghcqs-chinese-menu-of-tools-spread-disinformation-across-internet/
Schneier on Security: GCHQ Catalog of Exploit Tools
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/07/gchq_catalog_of.html
GCHQ has tools to manipulate online information, leaked documents show
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/14/gchq-tools-manipulate-online-information-leak
What GCHQ's geeky and misogynistic code names tell us about its coders
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/shortcuts/2014/jul/16/what-gchq-geeky-misogynistic-code-names-tell-us
Snowden files: Manipulating polls, netting from LinkedIn, YouTube in GCHQ bag of tricks
http://rt.com/news/172724-gchq-spying-internet-tools/
GCHQ's dark arts: Leaked documents reveal online manipulation, Facebook, YouTube snooping
http://www.zdnet.com/gchqs-dark-arts-leaked-leaked-documents-reveal-online-manipulation-facebook-and-youtube-snooping-7000031598/
and little more topic drift ... I hadn't posted anything at all to linkedin for day or two ... and then minutes after I posted this to linkedin IBMers group this morning:
DRUCKENMILLER: IBM Is The 'Poster Child' For What's Wrong With Corporate
Behavior Today
http://www.businessinsider.com/stan-druckenmiller-on-ibm-2014-7
... Linkedin says that all my posts to linkedin are being temporarily moderated because recent contributions were marked as spam or flagged for not being relevant
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Sale receipt--obligatory? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:04:03 -0400scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
past posts mentioning shrinkage.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#14 AMD to leave x86 behind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#72 Free Checking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#58 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#33 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:19:24 -0400Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
other articles are that "war on drugs" has enormously increased
incarcination in the US ... driving it to the highest rate in the US
... and spawning the commercial prison operations ... and
prison-industrial complex (overlap with military-industrial complex)
... but not for too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#9 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#10 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#25 Royal Pardon For Turing
reference that S&L mess had 30,000 criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal
convictions ... and economic mess last decade was 70 times larger than
S&L mess and no criminal referrals and no criminal convictions.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/03/30000-criminal-referrals-led-1000-felony-convictions-major-fraud-cases-sl-crisis-even-single-prosecution-today-even-though-2008-crisis-70-times-bigger.html
recent posts on fed. gov. doing everything possible to avoid criminal
prosecution of too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#10 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#14 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#15 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#18 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#19 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:30:48 -0400re:
this may explain predisposition ... but doesn't explain the "cyber dumb" &
Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
Blame WWI, not Bin Laden, for NSA's post-9/11 intel suck; War, peace and
paranoia in modern US
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/13/surveillance_state_ww1_roots/
other on 9/11 and Iraq:
A List of People Who Supported the War in Iraq
http://roguenationblog.com/2014/06/12/a-partial-list-of-people-who-shouldnt-be-talking-about-iraq/
9/11 Commissioner and Co-Chair of Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 Say
in Sworn Declarations that Saudi Government Linked to 9/11 Attacks
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/911-commissioner-and-co-chair-of-congressional-inquiry-into-911-say-in-sworn-declarations-that-saudi-government-linked-to-911-attacks.html
FBI Report Implicates Saudi Government in 9/11
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/fbi-report-implicates-saudis-in-911.html
Secret 9/11 Documents: "Implausible" that the 9/11 Hijackers Acted
9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey: It Might Take "A Permanent 9/11
Commission" to End the Remaining Mysteries of September 11
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/03/911-commissioner-bob-kerrey-it-might-take-a-permanent-911-commission-to-end-the-remaining-mysteries-of-september-11.html
recent posts reference 9/11 commission/investigation/report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#11 NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#13 Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#42 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#99 Reducing Army Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#103 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#4 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#11 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#12 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#14 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#69 Littoral Warfare Ship
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#86 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#89 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:49:17 -0400re:
recent on too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to jail
Senator Warren Lets Yellen Know She's Had It With the Fed's Charade
About Too Big to Fail
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/07/senator-warren-lets-yellen-know-shes-had-it-with-the-feds-charade-about-too-big-to-fail/
Elizabeth Warren Torches Janet Yellen on Too-Big-To-Fail
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-17/elizabeth-warren-torches-janet-yellen-too-big-fail
and
BofA offers $13 billion to settle mortgage probe: WSJ
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/16/us-bankofamerica-settlement-idUSKBN0FL1U620140716
Bank of America offering $13 billion to resolve probe
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101838659
UPDATE 5-Litigation costs hit Bank of America's quarterly profit
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/16/bank-of-america-results-idUSL4N0PR3H020140716
EGREGIOUS FRAUDSTER: INTRODUCING BOB RUBIN'S CITICORP
http://www.economonitor.com/lrwray/2014/07/16/egregious-fraudster-introducing-bob-rubins-citicorp-2/#sthash.oGC36dFG.dpuf
DOJ Citigroup Settlement Lacks Disclosure Of Victims And Criminal
Conduct
http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/07/15/doj-citigroup-settlement-lacks-disclosure-of-victims-and-criminal-conduct/
Latest Citi Mortgage Settlement Shows Administration Disconnect
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/07/latest-citi-let-bank-easy-mortgage-settlement-shows-administration-disconnect.html
Citigroup Pays Just $7 Billion For Causing Financial Crisis
http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/07/14/citigroup-pays-just-7-billion-for-causing-financial-crisis/#at_pco=cfd-1.0&at_ab=-&at_pos=2&at_tot=8&at_si=53c53708b10f5736
What's Missing in Citigroup's $7 Billion RMBS Deal
http://www.litigationdaily.com/id=1202663224458/Whats-Missing-in-Citigroups-7-Billion-RMBS-Deal?mcode=0&curindex=0&curpage=ALL&slreturn=20140615144530
Robert Scheer: Citigroup: The Original Gangsta
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/citigroup_the_original_gangsta_20140715
BlackRock, Pimco Sue Deutsche Bank, U.S. Bank Over Trustee Roles
http://online.wsj.com/articles/blackrock-pimco-sue-deutsche-bank-u-s-bank-over-trustee-roles-1403124442
Whoa! Big Banks Hit with Monster $250 Billion Lawsuit for Fraud in
Housing Crisis
http://www.alternet.org/economy/whoa-big-banks-hit-monster-250-billion-lawsuit-fraud-housing-crisis
"Clear & convincing" evidence of FDIC wrongdoing
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140715060616-20494629--clear-and-convincing-evidence-of-wrongdoing-by-the-fdic
Who Advised Cuomo on Mortgage Industry Investigation? A Mortgage
Lobbyist
http://www.propublica.org/article/who-advised-cuomo-on-mortgage-industry-investigation-a-mortgage-lobbyist
and a little IBM drift:
DRUCKENMILLER: IBM Is The 'Poster Child' For What's Wrong With
Corporate Behavior Today
http://www.businessinsider.com/stan-druckenmiller-on-ibm-2014-7
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to jail posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDO posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 10:09:29 -0400Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
and couple quick updates
How America's Policies Sealed Iraq's Fate
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/07/nation-brink-americas-policies-sealed-iraqs-fate.html
and
Is This The Scariest Chart In IBM's History?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-17/scariest-chart-ibms-history
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Speed of computers--wave equation for the copper atom? (curiosity) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:12:47 -0400as undergraduate in the 60s ... I got to do a lot of mainframe programming ... even given responsibility for support of ibm operating system at the univ. and sent to ibm user group SHARE meetings. part of old presentation I made at fall '68 SHARE meeting
then summer '69, I was brought into boeing as full time employee to help setup boeing computer services (among first half dozen employees), moving boeing dataprocessint into separate business unit to better monetize the investment (even providing services to non-boeing entities, a little like early cloud computing). when I graduate, I have to chose between staying at boeing or going to ibm science center.
recent posts mentioning working on computers as undergraduate
in the 60s:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#19 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#70 Salesmen--IBM and Coca Cola
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#19 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#25 [OT ] Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#28 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#32 [OT ] Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#33 Long lived code? Long live long lived code!?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#39 [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#56 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#58 The CIA's new "family jewels": Going back to Church?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#59 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#90 Enterprise Cobol 5.1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#9 Boyd for Business & Innovation Conference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#14 23Jun1969 Unbundling Announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#15 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#16 23Jun1969 Unbundling Announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#19 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#23 Is there any MF shop using AWS service?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#28 System/360 celebration set for ten cities; 1964 pricing for oneweek
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#73 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#76 Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#80 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#90 A Drone Could Be the Ultimate Dogfighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#92 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#39 weird trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#57 Interesting and somewhat disturbing article about IBM in BusinessWeek. What is your opinion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#63 Costs of core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#75 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 Terabytes on a tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#97 IBM architecture, was Fifty Years of nitpicking definitions, was BASIC,theProgrammingLanguageT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#98 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#105 Fifty Years of nitpicking definitions, was BASIC,theProgrammingLanguageT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#103 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#13 IBM & Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#17 R.I.P. PDP-10?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Speed of computers--wave equation for the copper atom? (curiosity) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:06:51 -0400Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
original sql/relational was done on vm370 370/145 at ibm san jose
research ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
other stuff happened at some of the virtual machine based commercial
online service bureau spin-offs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#timeshare
RAMIS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramis_Software
RAMIS Software is a fourth-generation programming language capable of
generating reports using simple language and many fewer lines of code
than previous third-generation programing languages such as COBOL. RAMIS
and its most recent version dubbed RAMIS II were developed at
Mathematica Products Group, in Princeton, New Jersey, in the late 1960s
through the early 1980s.
NOMAD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad_software
Nomad Software is a relational database and fourth-generation language
(4GL), originally developed in the 70s by time-sharing vendor National
CSS, Inc. While it is still in use today, its widest use was in the 70s
and 80s.
FOCUS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCUS
RAMIS, the first 4GL, was the direct ancestor of FOCUS, having been
principally developed by Gerald D. Cohen and Peter Mittelman while
working at Mathematica Products Group in 1970. The product was sold by
Mathematica to a number of in-house clients (including Nabisco and
AT&T), and was also offered by the National CSS timesharing company for
use on their VP/CSS operating system (a derivation of IBM's CP/CMS which
is now called VM/CMS).
... snip ...
folklore is that NOMAD was done by NCSS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_CSS
because FOCUS (RAMIS follow-on) was going to be offered on TYMSHARE
(another virtual machine based online commercial service bureau)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare
for other drift, TYMSHARE provided their cms-based online computer
conferencing system free to (IBM user group) SHARE starting in
in August 1976 ... archive here
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
past posts mentioning RAMIS, NOMAD, FOCUS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#79 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#15 CA-RAMIS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#17 CA-RAMIS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#12 Dreaming About Redesigning SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#15 Pre-relational, post-relational, 1968 CODASYL "Survey of Data Base Systems"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#44 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#76 Athlon cache question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#38 xml-security vs. native security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#35 PDP-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#37 PDP-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#13 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#37 Quote from comp.object
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#17 Newbie question on table design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#72 The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#12 Cobol hits 50 and keeps counting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#27 Natural keys vs Aritficial Keys
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#41 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#54 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#63 VMSHARE Archives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#55 Maybe off topic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#15 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#69 "Best" versus "worst" programming language you've used?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#39 Beyond Patriot? The Multinational MEADS Air Defense Program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#1 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#60 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#51 From Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#84 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#31 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#30 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#57 Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#63 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#16 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#77 Bloat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#34 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: War or Jobs Date: 18 July 2014 Blog: FacebookWar or Jobs
from above:
The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that it would cost
$3.6 trillion to bring our nation's infrastructure to a state of good
repair. Spending $1 trillion would create about 13 million jobs.
"The choice is clear," Sanders said. "Let's rebuild America and create
jobs here."
... snip ...
Volcker was talking to civil engineering professor about the
disappearing civil engineering programs at universities. the long term
lack of infrastructure spending has resulted in no jobs, and no jobs
has resulted in no students. many of the stimulus funding projects had
to hire chinese civil engineering firms; from Confidence Men: Wall
Street, Washington, and the Education of a President pg290:
Well, I said, 'The trouble with the United States recently is we spent
several decades not producing many civil engineers and producing a
huge number of financial engineers. And the result is s*tty bridges
and a s*tty financial system!'
... snip ..
recent volcker refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#44 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#72 Chris Dodd's SOPA crusading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#88 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#11 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#43 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#47 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#2 Occupy the SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#5 Too big not to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#19 Occupy the SEC Pitches An Extreme Makeover of Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#39 Greek knife to Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#54 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#63 The Economist's Take on Financial Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#86 CISPA legislation seen by many as SOPA 2.0
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#67 Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#9 JPM LOSES $2 BILLION USD!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#10 Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#30 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#48 Owl: China Swamps US Across the Board -- Made in China Computer Chips Have Back Doors, 45 Other "Ways & Means" Sucking Blood from US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#56 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#31 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#37 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#38 Other Than In Computers, Civilization Basically Stopped Progressing In The 1960s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#46 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#64 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#77 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#6 Good article. Friday discussion type
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#36 Race Against the Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#40 Core characteristics of resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#12 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Security by Obscurity or is it Secure by Design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#29 Jedi Knights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#3 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#19 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#42 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#55 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#30 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#48 Citigroup is the Real Reason We Need the Volcker Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#43 Royal Pardon for credit unions
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: UN to Five Eyes nations: Your mass surveillance is breaking the law Date: 18 July 2014 Blog: FacebookUN to Five Eyes nations: Your mass surveillance is breaking the law
some followup on this Success of Failure article (again related to
"Cyber Dumb")
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
ThinThread
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread
ThinThread
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/12/19/whistleblowers-vindicated-as-presidential-review-group-recommends-alternative-to-nsa-vacuuming-data/
Director shelves working $3M ThinThread for multi-billion dollar Trailblazer that doesn't work
https://news.yahoo.com/three-former-employees-became-nsa-critics-163808602.html
Director shelves working $3M ThinThread for multi-billion dollar Trailblazer that doesn't work
http://www.whistleblower.org/bio-william-binney-and-j-kirk-wiebe
Trailblazer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_Project
now Turbulence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence_%28NSA%29
for-profit companies make up over half the people and 70% of the
budget, after gerstner leaves ibm he goes to head up a private-equity
company that buys Snowden's employer (companies in this situation are
under enormous pressure to do what ever is necessary to meet
revenue/profit targets)
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
private-equity will frequently borrow the full amount to buy a company and then put the loan on that company's books to service (can increase debt load by a factor of ten times or more). Some comparison with house flipping except they can sell the company for less than they paid ... and still make enormous profit (since they don't pay off the loan, it goes with the sold company).
posts mentioning Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
posts mentioning gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Fortran archaeology, was R.I.P. PDP-10? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 20:48:43 -0400Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Fortran archaeology, was R.I.P. PDP-10? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 22:35:46 -0400re:
and recent post over in ibm-main about apple & ibm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#21 IBM to sell Apple
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Sale receipt--obligatory? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 11:08:56 -0400"Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> writes:
It is possible to get a gift or merchant ("stored-value") card which is registered and possible to do financial transfers to the account ("add value"). A version of this is even enabled for withdrawing cash at ATM machines. This gets into real battles between the traditional financial industry and potential competitors with new technology (like mobile phones) ... the financial establishment frequently responds with huge amount of FUD.
Rhetoric on the floor of congress was that the primary purpose of GLBA
was to keep new competitors out of banking business (if you already have
a banking charter, you get to keep it, but if you don't have one, you
can't get one) ... specifically referring to walmart and microsoft.
Of course GLBA is now better known for repeal of Glass-Steagall ...
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
and the author #2 on time's list of those responsible for economic
mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
payment fees have accounted for 40-60% of US financial institution
bottom line (and is heavily prorated based on fraud rates). Over the
years there have been numerous anti-trust legatation regarding
interchange fees. A decade ago, Walmart indicated that it wanted to
acquire an Utah ILC (as work-aroaund to GLBA) ... so it can be its own
merchant acquiring bank ... basically eliminating the acquiring
interchange fees that it was paying to one of the too big to
fail. This kicked off a campaign to get the small, local community
banks to write their congressmen opposing the acquisition (even tho the
impact would have been the loss of walmart merchant interchange fees to
one of the largest too big to fail ... note that this is non-trivial
since walmart accounts for 25-30% of retail transactions). posts
mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
as an aside, auto loan companies have acquired Utah ILCs to enable loan business in every state w/o 1) national bank charter coming under national regulation or 2) needing separate charter in every state
recent posts mentioning Utah ILC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#20 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#76 Did these tech and telecom companies assess the risk and return with respect to Anti-Money Laundering challenges?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#37 Married Couples and the Financial Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#84 Support Senator Warren's Postal Banking Proposal
recent posts mentioning #2 on time's list of those responsible for
economic mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#98 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#0 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#3 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#7 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#80 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#37 Married Couples and the Financial Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#15 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
I've mentioned before that Gerstner "wins" the competition to be the next CEO of AMEX ... the looser leaves and takes his protege with him and go to Baltimore and acquires what is described as loan-sharking business. They make several other acquisitions finally acquiring citibank in violation of Glass-Steagall. Greenspan gives them an exemption while they lobby congress for repeal of Glass-Steagall ... which enables too big to fail. The protege then goes on to be the head of another too big to fail.
AMEX is in competition with KKR for private-equity take-over of RJR, KKR
wins, but runs into trouble and hires Gerstner away to turn-around RJR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
IBM goes into the red and is being reorganized into the 13 "baby blues"
in preparation for breaking up the company ... ref: "How IBM Was Left
Behind" ... 28Dec1992:
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
The IBM board then hires gerstner away to reverse the breakup and
resurrect the company. past posts mentioning gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Sale receipt--obligatory? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 11:48:37 -0400Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
oh, and ...
By the early 90s, the industry got such a bad reputation that they
changed the name to private equity (and "junk bonds" became "high
yield bonds" ... they bring in spin-doctors to try and improve their
image but not actually change their practices) "The Buyout of America:
How Private Equity Is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American
Economy", log63-64:
I soon realized the rapacious leveraged-buyout (LBO) kings of the 1980s
were still around. They had just adopted a new name, now calling
themselves private-equity investors.
... loc465-67:
At about the same time that LBO groups became private-equity firms, junk
bonds were renamed high-yield bonds, and investment banks like
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, full of former Drexelites, began to sell
them increasingly to mutual funds, money managers, and insurers
... snip ...
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
AMEX, Private Equity, IBM related Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
the "junk bonds" were a major factor in the S&L mess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
other recent reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#60 GAO and Wall Street Journal Whitewash Huge Criminal Bank Frauds
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Sale receipt--obligatory? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:44:55 -0400"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
oct2008 congressional hearings into role that rating agencies played in
the financial mess had lots of testimony that the sellers were paying
for triple-A ratings (when both the sellers and rating agencies knew
they weren't worth triple-A). tv news commentary at the time made
prediction that the rating agencies will probably avoid federal
prosecution by black mailing the gov (variation on too big to
prosecute) posts mentioning too big to fail, too big to prosecute,
too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
securitized mortages had (also) been used during the S&L mess to
obfuscate fraudulent mortgages ... but w/o triple-A rating that didn't
have much of market. in the late 90s we were asked to work on integrity
of supporting documents in securitized mortgages (as countermeasure) ...
long-winded wandering post (from jan1999)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm
however, they soon learned that triple-A rating trumps supporting
documents and they could start doing no-document (no-down, liar) loans
(and w/o supporting documents, there was no longer issue of supporting
document integrity). posts mentioning (triple-A rated) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
from recent post .. analogous to the campaign to get community banks to
write their congressmen opposing walmart acquiring Utah ILC (& printing
money):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#37 Married Couples and the Financial Mess
Triumphant plutocracy; the story of American public life from 1870 to
1920
http://archive.org/details/triumphantpluto00pettrich
loc754-62:
In 1872, the ring of bankers in New York sent the following circular to
every bank in the United States: "Dear Sir: It is advisable to do all in
your power to sustain such prominent daily and weekly newspapers,
especially the agricultural and religious press, as will oppose the
issuing of greenback paper money, and that you also withhold patronage
or favors from all applicants who are not willing to oppose the
Government issue of money. Let the Government issue the coin and the
banks issue the paper money of the country, for then we can better
protect each other. To repeal the law creating National Bank notes, or
to restore to circulation the Government issue of money, will be to
provide the people with money, and will therefore seriously affect your
individual profit as bankers and lenders. See your Congressman at once,
and engage him to support our interests that we may control
legislation."
... snip ...
I've mentioned before that in Jan2009, I was asked to HTML'ize the
Pecora Hearings (30s senate hearings into crash of '29, resulted in
numerous criminal convictions; had been scanned the fall2008 at Boston
Public Library) with lots of internal cross-links and URLs between what
happened then and what happened this time (reference that the new
congress might have appetite to do something). I worked on it for awhile
and then got a call that it wouldn't be needed after all (references to
enormous piles of wallstreet money totally burying capital hill).
posts mentioning Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
also that local washington press will periodically comment that the
political public face of congress is Kabuki Theater (and has little or
nothing to do with what really is going on))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
another are studies that wallstreet tends to attract sociopaths that
view the rest of the population as prey (part of the reason for
sometimes referring to financial institutions as predatory) ... past
sociopath refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#77 Madoff Whistleblower Book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#59 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#24 AMERICA IS BROKEN, WHAT NOW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#30 Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#80 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#4 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#30 Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#16 Interview of Mr. John Reed regarding banking fixing the game
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#99 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#1 Spontaneous conduction: The music man with no written plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#91 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#84 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#53 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#14 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#53 Retirement Savings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#76 Crowdsourcing Diplomacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#1 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#1 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:09:48 -0400frailey writes:
Recent posts that major IBM products had been original developed at
customer or internal datacenters and then moved to a (software)
"development group" for support and maintenance ... the transition to
"object code only" in the 80s ... greatly curtailed much of that
innovation:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#19 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#74 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#79 EBFAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#80 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#99 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#5 "F[R]eebie" software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#6 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#7 You can make your workplace 'happy'
other recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#31 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#19 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#23 Is there any MF shop using AWS service?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#69 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#36 IBM Historic computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#73 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#62 Interesting and somewhat disturbing article about IBM in BusinessWeek. What is your opinion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#63 Costs of core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#13 IBM & Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#31 Speed of computers--wave equation for the copper atom? (curiosity)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:33:49 -0400Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
the transition to charging for (initially just application) software
with 23jun1969 announcement (they made the case that operating/kernel
software should still be free)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
was somewhat hard on some of the central organizations, having grown
exceedingly bloated ... some of this is seen in Brook's Mythical
Man-Month:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
however, they came up with some creative book fiddling. The science center ... and several of the products originated there ... tended to have enormously less costs. An early scenario was announcement of JES2 networking product (which by itself never could find a price point where the sales forecast would exceed cost) as a "joint" product with vm370 vnet/rscs. The joint price was jacked up as high as possible and still not loose many of the vnet/rscs customers so that the joint revenue could be used to cover the JES2 networking costs (by itself, vnet/rscs could have been sold very close to media distribution costs and still meet gov. requirements). some past posts mentioning hasp, jes, jes2 networking https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
note that this issue was despite the fact that a lot of the jes2 networking code carried over from hasp networking much of which carried the characters "TUCC" in cols68-71 of the source (originally from TUCC).
one of the "innovations" of vnet/rscs was layered architecture ... where JES2/HASP networking support was intertwined in standard job processing. Because of the tight integration, JES2 systems at different release levels exchanging network files could result in the MVS host crashing. By comparison vnet/rscs had native line drivers ... and then special JES2 line drivers. On the internal network a library of JES2 line drivers grew up for RSCS that would convert JES2 header formats for different releases (trying to help keep connected JES2 systems from crashing MVS systems).
science center ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
former co-worker responsible for rscs/vnet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
which was the dominant technology for the internal network
(larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning
until some time late 85 or early 86)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
as well as the corporate sponsored univ bitnet (& earn) ...
also larger than arpanet/internet for a time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
later they removed the native rscs/vnet line drivers from the product (even though they were significantly more efficient and higher throughput) and only shipped the rscs/vnet JES2 drivers (minimizing comparisons between the two) ... although the native rscs/vnet drivers tended to be used internally long after they stopped shipping to customers.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Sale receipt--obligatory? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:33:32 -0400greymausg writes:
I've told the story before about chip&pin ... start of the century there
was large deployment in the us ... but it was during the "yes card"
period ... somebody's comment that they spent billions of dollars to
prove chips were less secure than magstripe ... and then all evidence
of the deployment seems to disappear w/o a trace. old "yes card"
reference (trip report to cartes2002, gone 404 but lives on at wayback
machine) ... bottom of the page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
past posts mentioning "yes card"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
in the UK last decade, as part of motivating the deployment, they reverse the burdon of proof in dispute (when chip is used; i.e. instead of having to prove you did it, you have to prove you didn't do it). i was contacted by some legal represntative of somebody claiming they didn't do it ... but they needed to provide surveillance video to prove they didn't do it (i.e. that it was somebody else). there was video surveillance at the ATM, but the bank claimed that they couldn't find the video.
customers are also told not to report fraud to the police ... but to
their financial institution ... and the financial institution would
decide whether they will report to police or not. a few old posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#39 Usable Security 2007
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#61 Halifax faces legal challenge on chip-and-pin security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#35 Does the UK Government Really Want us to Report Fraud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#60 Target Offers Free Credit Monitoring Following Security Breach
old reference at wayback machine: "Fraud victims told not to go to
police"
https://web.archive.org/web/20070302123100/http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/news/2183192/cheque-card-crimes
Note in the 90s, the EU Data Privacy Directive (EU-DPD) was suppose to mean that electronic transactions at point-of-sale were to be as anonymous as cash (i.e. no name on credit/debit card and no checking gov. issued picture id).
Note however, in the US there is supposedly "know you customer" mandates
for financial institutions (part of anti money laundering and other
activities). However, the past decade or so, some number of the too big
to fail have been repeatedly caught money laundering for drug cartels
and terrorists ... and nothing more than slapped hands.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
some of the non-prosecution for too big to fail money laundering was
where I first starting to see references to too big to prosecute and
too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
A related issue is account fraud involving crooks opening new accounts
with "synthetic IDs". Banks have claimed that they have been defrauded
by crooks using "synthetic IDs" (doen't actually represent any
living/real person) ... however this would also appear to be US
financial institutions failing to comply with "know you customer"
mandates. a few posts mentioning "know you customer":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm3.htm#cstech13 cardtech/securetech & CA PKI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm17.htm#20 PKI International Consortium
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#12 Payment Tokens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#44 Governance of anonymous financial services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#1 2008: The year of hack the vote?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#41 AADS, X9.59, & privacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#29 The new urgency to fix online privacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#54 The new urgency to fix online privacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#62 Client Certificate UI for Chrome? -- OT anonymous-transaction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#50 WSJ.com The Fallacy of Identity Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#27 New Gift Card Laws Also Benefit Terrorists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#36 Cookies Are Dead in the Fight Against Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#13 "Compound threats" to appear in 2011 ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#49 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#28 SNA vs TCP/IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#96 'Synthetic' ID Theft Emerging As Fastest-Growing Type Of Consumer Fraud
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 01:07:04 -0400JimP. <pongbill127@cableone.net> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 09:52:25 -0400jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
never did, but the IBMer doing interview was incredulous when I told
him that I already had offer from science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
was fairly senior position ... and not entry level. possibly conjecture
was the test was oriented to finding those that fit the "Man Month"
profile:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#99 IBM architecture, was Fifty Years of nitpicking definitions, was BASIC,theProgrammingLanguageT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#103 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#5 "F[R]eebie" software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#41 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
I have mentioned in the past being blamed for online computer
conferencing on the internal network in the late 70s & early 80s
(folklore is that when the executive committee was told about online
computer conferencing & the internal network, 5of6 wanted to fire me).
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
I've also mentioned that somewhat as result of online computer
conferencing, a researcher was assigned to study how I communicated.
They sat in the back of my office for 9months, took notes on how I
communicated, face-to-face, telephone, went with me to meetings and got
copies of all my incoming & outgoing email as well as logs of all my
instant messages (almost tempted to reference gov. evesdropping). The
result was a number of papers and at least one book as well as stanford
PHD (joint with language and computer AI, winograd was adviser on
computer AI side). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
the researcher had previously spent some time as English as Second Language instructor, and once commented that my use of English was characteristic of non-native speaker.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Sale receipt--obligatory? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 10:13:25 -0400Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
recent semi-parody on lack of prosecution ... i.e. the Citi announcement lists violations that would otherwise have resulted in criminal prosecution
AG Holder: "The U.S. Announces the Indictment of Citigroup's Senior
Officers for Fraud"
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/07/ag-holder-u-s-announces-indictment-citigroups-senior-officers-fraud.html#more-8439
Article: AG Holder: "The U.S. Announces the Indictment of Citigroup's
Senior Officers for Fraud"
http://www.opednews.com/articles/AG-Holder--The-U-S-Annou-by-William-K-Black--Accountability_Banking_Banks_Banksters-140719-342.html
AG Holder - "U.S. Announces the Indictment of Citigroup's Senior
Officers"
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/07/bill-black-holder-citigroup-settlement.html
USDOJ: Justice Department, Federal and State Partners Secure Record $7
Billion Global Settlement with Citigroup for Misleading Investors
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/July/14-ag-733.html
recent posts referencing S&L mess had 30,000 criminal referrals and last
decade has resulted in "zero" criminal referrals (even tho it was 70
times larger):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#66 GAO and Wall Street Journal Whitewash Huge Criminal Bank Frauds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#70 Obama Administration Launches Plan To Make An "Internet ID" A Reality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#10 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#27 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
other recent news
BlackRock, Pimco Sue Deutsche Bank, U.S. Bank Over Trustee Roles
Lawsuits Focus on More Than 2,000 Mortgage Bonds
http://online.wsj.com/articles/blackrock-pimco-sue-deutsche-bank-u-s-bank-over-trustee-roles-1403124442
Black Rock and PIMCO Sue Banks for $250 Billion Did the Other Shoe Just Drop?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/16/did-the-other-shoe-just-drop/
EGREGIOUS FRAUDSTER: INTRODUCING BOB RUBIN'S CITICORP
http://www.economonitor.com/lrwray/2014/07/16/egregious-fraudster-introducing-bob-rubins-citicorp-2/
Latest Citi "Let Bank Off Easy" Mortgage Settlement Shows Administration Disconnect
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/07/latest-citi-let-bank-easy-mortgage-settlement-shows-administration-disconnect.html
BofA offers $13 billion to settle mortgage probe: WSJ
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/16/us-bankofamerica-settlement-idUSKBN0FL1U620140716
Bank of America offering $13 billion to resolve probe
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101838659
UPDATE 5-Litigation costs hit Bank of America's quarterly profit
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/16/bank-of-america-results-idUSL4N0PR3H020140716
U.S. official warns banks of lawsuits over mortgage misconduct
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/16/usa-justice-fraud-idUSL2N0PR1ZB20140716
Slate Money on the Citigroup settlement, Big Tobacco and the Joint
Strike Fighter
http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/slate_money/2014/07/slate_money_on_the_citigroup_settlement_big_tobacco_and_the_joint_strike.html?wpisrc=burger_bar
end of 2008, the four largest too big to fail were still holding $5.2T
("off book") of triple-A rated toxic CDOs
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
over $27T were done during the economic mess (claims that it accounts
for wallstreet size, as percent of GDP, tripling during the economic
mess)
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:19:25 -0400Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
the focus in that section of the book was that Canadians & British had learned some the hard way on what worked & what didn't ... and the US Navy treated it pretty much as NIH and ignored advice ... as a result their tactics were nearly useless ... and that the ineffectiveness of the US Navy resulted in increasing the area of Canadian responsibility (goes into a lot more from historical records).
loc1289-90:
fact is frequently played down in the United States that the British and
Canadians, in fact, conducted most of the ASW operations in the
Atlantic.
loc1388-90:
That was World War II, but some things never change, or they change only
temporarily. In fact, "By 1958, the CNO, Adm. Arleigh Burke, wanted 'to
know why the Navy's ASW effort, despite all the high tech, was so weak
and ineffective."
... snip ...
another section goes on how the US Navy has more recently extremely neglected ASW ... as well as various kinds of new non-nuclear submarine technology. several recent large scale navy war games have used allies modern diesel/electric non-nuclear submarines as part of the red team ... and every time they have poped up in the middle of carrier group, taken out the carrier and several escorts. The navy has then tried hard to prevent the release the results of those war games.
loc650-53:
This news and Knuth's original uncensored report, which ended up in the
hands of Senator Gary Hart, caused quite a stir in Congress, and the
U.S. Navy had a lot of explaining to do. Why had not one but two
American carriers been sunk, and why had the submarines responsible not
been detected? Why indeed had a small, 1960s-vintage diesel submarine of
the underfunded and multidimensionally "bantam" Canadian navy been able
to defeat one of America's most powerful and expensive warships, and
with such apparent ease?
... snip ...
the US Navy even tried to use the excuse that the Canadians had cheated and didn't play fair in the war games.
loc674-75:
While Canadian submarines have routinely taken on American carriers,
other small navies have enjoyed similar victories. The Royal Netherlands
Navy, with its small force of extremely quiet diesel submarines, has
made the U.S. Navy eat the proverbial humble pie on more than one
occasion.
... snip ...
other recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#1 Lessons Not Learned: The U.S. Navy's Status Quo Culture
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:47:56 -0400Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
shortly after joining IBM ... I guess I started to be a problem ...
during the "Future System" period, I refused to work on FS, continued
to work on 370 and would even periodically ridicule FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
there were a few similar instances even before getting blamed for online
computer conferencing. about the same time as the online computer
conferencing flap ... I wrote an open door claiming that I was vastly
underpaid, even including references. I got back written response from
head of HR that my complete employment history had been reviewed and I
was making exactly what I was suppose to. I then took my original and
their response and wrote a response that I had been asked to interview
new hires for a new group that would work under my technical direction
and HR was making the new hires offers that were 30% more than I was
currently making. I never got a response from HR ... but within few
weeks, I got a 30% raise ... aka it wasn't a 30% raise to put me at my
correct salary level, it was 30% raise to bring me up level with what
they were offering the new hires. past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#74 My Vintage Dream PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#82 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#79 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#66 Win 3.11 on Broadband
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#0 coax (3174) throughput
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#2 WHAT WAS THE PROJECT YOU WERE INVOLVED/PARTICIPATED AT IBM THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#12 Clone Processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#28 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#42 The IBM "Open Door" policy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#65 IBM layoffs strike frst in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#81 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
periodically during my career, people would remind me that business ethics was an oxymoron.
other past posts referencing being told that business ethics is an
oxymoron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#72 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#53 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#37 How do you see ethics playing a role in your organizations current or past?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#36 U.S. students behind in math, science, analysis says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#52 Revisiting CHARACTER and BUSINESS ETHICS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#57 U.S. begins inquiry of IBM in mainframe market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#50 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#38 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#20 Would you fight?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#0 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#44 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#59 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#28 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#42 The IBM "Open Door" policy
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 12:27:38 -0400Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> writes:
I had included in the original open door a copy of (then recent) SJMN series on pay in silicon valley ... basically job hopping played significant component ... if you had been with the same company more than 2yrs, you were underpaid ... but it didn't have case where nearly 20yrs in the business, was making 30% less than new hire offers (significantly more egregious than any of the examples).
however, recently in news has been several silicon valley companies convicted for salary fixing and agreements to not poach each others workers.
Google and Apple Settle Lawsuit Alleging Wage-Fixing
http://time.com/76655/google-apple-settle-wage-fixing-lawsuit/
pple, Google Settle Wage-Fixing and Hiring Conspiracy Case
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/04/apple-google-settle-wage-fixing-hiring-case
Tech giants settle wage-fixing allegations for a reported $324M
http://nypost.com/2014/04/24/tech-giants-settle-wage-fixing-allegations-for-a-reported-324m/
Fixing a Salary Negotiation Mistake Before the Job Offer
http://www.salary.com/advice/layouthtmls/advl_display_Cat8_Ser202_Par304.html
Apple, others officially agree to $325M settlement in Silicon Valley wage fixing case
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/05/23/apple-others-officially-agree-to-325m-settlement-in-silicon-valley-wage-fixing-case
Pixar, LucasFilm, DreamWorks Animation In Alleged Wage-Fixing Cartel To Boost Profit
http://nikkifinke.com/pixar-lucasfilm-dreamworks-animation-wage-fixing-conspiracy/
Tech giants lose round in wage-fixing suit
http://www.cnet.com/news/judge-denies-request-for-summary-judgment-in-tech-firm-wage-suit/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Sale receipt--obligatory? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:00:50 -0400Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
in the 80s had some TDMA satellite earth stations, was using (Ku band)
transponder on SBS4 (went up on 41d) in geosync orbit. Was putting in
4.5meter dish out behind yorktown research ... and local residents were
complaining/protesting to local council about the radition from the
dish. one of yorktown people attended council meeting and showed that
even if somebody was suspended directly above the (focused, directional,
25watt transmitter) dish ... they would receive less radition than local
residents were receiving from the local FM (50k watt) station
transmission ... old ref:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#25 CP spooling & programming technology
was looking at around 20mbit/sec aggregate ... oh, and the dish had uplink power control and tended to operate under 25watt unless heavy moisture (aka similar principle to microwave ovens with water absorbing microwave energy).
all links had to be encrypted and the highest rate I could get at the time was T1 (2mbit/sec full-duplex) ... so had to do multiple links ... IBM did have a c-band T3 operation with mostly voice that had a very specialized, and very expensive T3 encryptor ... was periodically referred to as the "data aggravator" ... there is funny story about man-in-black showing up attempting to prevent it being turned on.
we did have a transponder use preemption clause which was only invoked once when the pope visited denver for additional tv coverage bandwidth.
past posts mentioning sbs4 &/or 41d
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#27 Tysons Corner, Virginia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#28 Western Union data communications?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#29 IBM 3725 Comms. controller - Worth saving?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#76 1950s AT&T/IBM lack of collaboration?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#14 Ping: Anne & Lynn Wheeler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#23 Health care and lies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#60 JES2 NJE setup
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#21 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#17 Ethernet, Aloha and CSMA/CD -
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#26 IBM microwave application--early data communications
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006d.html#24 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#55 5963 (computer grade dual triode) production dates?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#11 An Out-of-the-Main Activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#16 Why I use a Mac, anno 2006
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#31 "25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#41 Year-end computer bug could ground Shuttle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#61 Damn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#64 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#19 IBM-MAIN longevity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#20 IBM-MAIN longevity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#44 IBM-MAIN longevity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#27 My Vintage Dream PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#76 And, 40 years of IBM midrange
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#36 U.S. students behind in math, science, analysis says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#0 Anyone going to Supercomputers '09 in Portland?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#57 watches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#58 watches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#27 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#69 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#12 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#51 The Credit Card Criminals Are Getting Crafty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#32 Colossal Cave Adventure in PL/I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#76 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#61 End of an era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#77 End of an era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#20 TELSTAR satellite experiment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#3 We are on the brink of a historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#0 Happy Challenger Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#43 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#13 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#0 By Any Other Name
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#78 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#80 Why DOJ Deemed Bank Execs Too Big To Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#67 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:19:12 -0400greymausg writes:
more recent
U.S. Navy's Biggest Ships Are in China's Sights
http://time.com/3000961/u-s-navys-biggest-ships-are-in-chinas-sights/
there is also periodic news about china's anti-ship cruise missiles
and a2ad ... recent post:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#66 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 19:08:44 -0400re:
effort to release rest of 9/11 documents has been going on for some time
"I Was Absolutely Shocked At What I Read," Congressman Calls For
Release Of Secret 9/11 Documents
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-20/i-was-absolutely-shocked-what-i-read-congressman-calls-release-secret-911-documents
Must Watch Video - Congressman Thomas Massie Calls for Release of
Secret 9/11 Documents Upon Reading Them
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/07/15/must-watch-video-congressman-thomas-massie-calls-for-release-of-secret-911-documents-upon-reading-them/
couple past refs to 9/11 families were given permission to sue Saudi
Arabia for responsibility for 9/11
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#99 Reducing Army Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#103 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#4 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#14 Royal Pardon For Turing
some past refs that things became increasingly possible as US become more energy independent.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:43:49 -0400Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
one of the customers that i would drop in on (and got to know pretty well, sit around and kabitz with datacenter manager) had enormously huge football field of ibm mainframes ... maybe not like renton or spook base ... but still pretty large. The local IBM branch manager had horribly offended the customer ... and as "revenge" they were going to be the first commercial true blue customer to install a clone processor (this vendor had been selling into education & scientific market ... but had yet to break into the commercial market).
I got asked to spend 6months on site at the customer account. The claim was the branch manager was good sailing buddy of the CEO ... and when the customer is the first commercial account to install clone processor ... it would ruin the branch manager's career. I was suppose to be there for six months to make it look like it was a technical issue (distracting any reflection on the branch manager) ... however i knew from the customer that there wasn't going to be anything that stops them from istalling the processor from clone vendor (although it would be the only one in a vast sea of true blue machines). I was told that if I didn't do it, I could kiss goodby to any career in the company.
One of the reasons i stayed was there was more toys than anywhere else in the world. One of my hobbies was doing enhanced production operating systems for internal datacenters ... and i could walk into almost any corporate interal datacenter in the world and be allowed to play. I also got to play disk engineer in bldgs. 14&15 ... or dozens of other things ... all below top executive radar.
past posts getting to play disk engineer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
one of my long time internal operating system customers was the world
wide online sales&marketing system system HONE ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
FS was suppose to completely replace 370 ... and internal politics was
killing off 370 efforts ... which is credited with giving clone vendors
market foothold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
in the wake of FS failure, there was mad rush to get products back into pipeline ... 3033 (168 remapped to 20% faster chips) and 3081 were kicked off in parallel. A couple of us got the 3033 processor engineers to work on a 16-way design in their spare time. Everybody in high-end mainframe land (POK) thot it was really great until somebody told the head of POK it could be decades before the POK favorite son operating system had 16-way support. Then we were asked to never visit POK again and the processor engineers were instructed to never get distracted again. However, I could still sneak into POK and go bike riding with processor engineers.
recent posts mentioning renton datacenter at that time i was there
had upwards of $300M ibm mainframe equipment ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#31 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#8 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#9 Boyd for Business & Innovation Conference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#19 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#23 Is there any MF shop using AWS service?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#36 IBM Historic computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#73 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#80 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#57 Interesting and somewhat disturbing article about IBM in BusinessWeek. What is your opinion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#63 Costs of core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#13 IBM & Boyd
past posts mentioning the branch manager that horribly
offended one of his customers:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#63 Moving assembler programs above the line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#32 IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#19 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#28 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#12 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#19 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#31 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#61 JCL CROSS-REFERENCE Utilities (OT for Paul, Rick, and Shmuel)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#21 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#8 International Business Marionette
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#10 The Knowledge Economy Two Classes of Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#22 Teletypewriter Model 33
misc. recent posts mentioning 16-way
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#6 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#14 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#70 architectures, was Open source software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#19 z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#59 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#59 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#11 Can the mainframe remain relevant in the cloud and mobile era?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#21 Complete 360 and 370 systems found
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#6 Demonstrating Moore's law
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: transactions, was There Is Still Hope Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:08:40 -0400John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> writes:
I knew ibm se on large commercial account in LA in the 70s ... had implemented non-ACP/non-TPF support for ATM cash machine transactions that ran on 370/158 and outperformed ACP/TPF running on 370/168 (i.e. 1mip processor versus 3mip processor) doing same ATM cash machine transactions
tymshare had done gnosis and when M/D bought tymshare, gnosis was
spunoff to key logic as keykos. in the 90s, keykos was outperforming tpf
doing various tpf workloads. some recent refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#84 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#53 The mainframe turns 50, or, why the IBM System/360 launch was the dawn of enterprise IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#40 Named Memory
in 1st half of 90s, we were brought into the largest airline res system running acp/tpf to look at redoing their ten impossible things. turns out that lots of implementation was left over from design trade-offs made in the 60s. relatively limited computing resources in the 60s resulted in design that had large amount of manual prep pre-tailoring data for very short pathlength. effectively all of their ten impossible things were because of the manual effort that went into pretailoring all the data. in two months i was able to do new implementation that made totally different tradeoffs using more modern 90s technology ... do all ten impossible things ... and for various reasons, ran 100 times faster (in part could leverage increase in processor memory sizes to keep a lot more stuff resident rather than constantly going back&forth to disk). that then ran into status quo brick wall ... since eliminating all that manual pre-tailoring was very expensive organization with nearly 1000 people.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:17:05 -0400re:
other archaeological tales
not long after graduating and joining the science center ... other
recent ref
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#13 IBM & Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#31 Speed of computers--wave equation for the copper atom? (curiosity)
the company hired a new CSO ... as was common in the period commercial CSO coming from gov. service, specializing in physical security (in this case head of presidential detail). even tho I had relatively recently started with company ... was considered one of the most knowledgeable on computer security ... was asked to run around with the new CSO ... providing some detail about computer security (and a little bit of physical security rubbing off) ... before the incident involving CEO's sailing buddy and first install of clone processor in true blue commercial account.
for other drift ... I didn't learn about these guys until later
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
for related drift ... recent post mentioning HSDT & link encryptors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#49 Sale receipt--obligatory
I really hated what had to pay for T1 link encryptors (and was effectively near impossible to getting anything faster) ... and got involved in doing our own. Objective was under $100 to produce and handle at least 3mbyte/sec (not 3mbit/sec). Initially the corporate crypto group said it significantly reduced standard crypto strength. It took me 3months to figure out how to explain to them what was going on (significantly increased standard crypto strength). It was hollow victory ... got told could build as many as I wanted ... but they all had to be shipped to address in maryland (and I couldn't use any). It was when I realized there was three kinds of crypto: 1) the kind they don't care about, 2) the kind you can't do, 3) the kind you can only do for them.
past posts mentioning 3kinds crypto:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#87 New test attempt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#86 Own a piece of the crypto wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#32 Getting Out Hard Drive in Real Old Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#27 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#43 Internet Evolution - Part I: Encryption basics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#19 The IETF is probably the single element in the global equation of technology competition than has resulted in the INTERNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#20 TELSTAR satellite experiment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#60 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#69 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#0 We list every company in the world that has a mainframe computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#63 ARPANET's coming out party: when the Internet first took center stage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#85 Key Escrow from a Safe Distance: Looking back at the Clipper Chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#63 Reject gmail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#70 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#47 T-carrier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#1 IBM Mainframe (1980's) on You tube
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#31 The Vindication of Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#69 The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#77 German infosec agency warns against Trusted Computing in Windows 8
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#88 NSA and crytanalysis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#10 "NSA foils much internet encryption"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#50 Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#9 NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#25 Is there any MF shop using AWS service?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#27 TCP/IP Might Have Been Secure From the Start If Not For the NSA
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:29:31 -0400jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
nope, but my mother says I was almost 3 before I talked
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:38:20 -0400hancock4 writes:
with 23jun1969 unbundling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
with starting to charge for (application) software ... product revenue was required to cover costs ... looking at price elasticity ... maximize price while not impacting number of sales. straight-forward could find local optima (hill-climbing algorithms) ... but there might be other "peaks" (multiple peaks & valleys). it was part of the reason for doing it starting with low, medium and high price ... and then optimize for each starting point ... and see if it reaches different peaks.
parts of the current chip business is similar and different ... huge, upfront, new technology development costs plus associated multi-billion dollar "factories" that is obsolete within a couple years (and new one has to be built) ... and relatively fixed per wafer manufacturing cost & production rate. it becomes somewhat analogous to airline algorithms for filling seats. would prefer that all production slots are used for highest priced product ... but if there are production slots left over, may be forced to produce some mix of lower priced products (as part of covering the significant upfront costs).
base wafer production may be in the $20k range ... if you can get 4000 chips per wafer ... you are down to about $5/chip production costs. if you can double the area of the wafer and halve the circuit size ... you can get it down to less than $1/chip. However the price still has to cover the enormous upfront cost. Say a fab has capacity to do 20M chips before fab/technology is obsolete ... that still may mean $100-$500/chip upfront costs.
recent posts mentioning that based on 1stQTR2014 ibm mainframe sales,
its processor chips done in latest 450mm wafers and 14nm technology, a
full years sales is less than 1 day of a fab's chip production.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#8 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#9 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#11 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#57 [CM] Mainframe tech is here to stay: just add innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#61 Are you tired of the negative comments about IBM in this community?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#68 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Sale receipt--obligatory? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:52:34 -0400Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:30:58 -0400hancock4 writes:
software costs are nearly all upfront ... production costs are nearly zero ... there are all sorts of games that can be played with things like tiered pricing. There might be analogy with cut-price for day-old bread ... already produced and will otherwise be discarded with no revenue at all ... or flying standby for last minute empty seats on airline.
In any case, IBM has a new generation of executives:
A View from Beneath the Dancing Elephant: Rediscovering IBM's Corporate
Constitution (Peter E. Greulich) loc1423-25:
Tivoli Configuration Manager (TCM). Its target audience was Fortune 2000
customers, and it was successful: twenty-six of IBM's largest customers
used TCM to manage more than a hundred thousand endpoints each, and it
permeated IBM's installed accounts--more than sixteen hundred customers.
loc1427-28:
But it was falling behind the competition. The sales force was asking
for new functionality and a lighter, more usable product because the
hardware and management costs were too high. We started seeing losses to
Microsoft, whose product was scaling.
loc1431-33:
The meeting to discuss the project was short. The development director
said, "TCM is a cash cow. Why should I spend money on a product that is
nothing but pure profit?" He believed that products in this market were
commodities with low margins, and should be left to others to waste
their profits on. We never convinced him otherwise.
... snip ...
... until TCM was obsolete.
separate but different Tivoli story. I had done cmsback originally for
internal installations ... and it went through a couple releases ... some
old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#cmsback
and past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#backup
AMEX, Private Equity, IBM related Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
finally an enhanced version that included non-mainframe clients was
released as workstation datasave facility (WDSF). Later as IBM was being
reorged for splitting up into the 13 "baby blues" (eventually gerstner
was brought in and reversed the splitup and resurrect the company), the
disk division was one of the furthest along ... having been rebranded as
adstar. WDSF got enhancements and rebranded as ADSM (adstar storage
manager). Eventually the disk division (adstar) was sold off ... but
some number of software products were transferred to the Tivoli group
... and ADSM was rebranded to Tivoli Storage Manager.
http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/tivostormana/
Note in the following it doesn't list z/VM (current vm/cms) support at
all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Tivoli_Storage_Manager
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: A computer at home? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:56:56 -0400"gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> writes:
at the same time, the dial-up commercial/cash-management online banking would say that they would never move to the internet because of a long list of security issues (most that continue to this day; however most of these operations have moved to the internet despite the security issues).
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#dialup-banking
note around the turn of the century, there was a large deployment in the US of consumer security chipcards (as part of existing payment card) ... along with free give-away of hardware token reader. they apparently had gotten a fire sale on obsolete serial-port token readers for the give-away (serial port being replaced by USB) ... which resulted in so many consumer problems (including consumers having to re-install systems from scratch) that the effort was abandoned and rapidly spreading opinion in the finance industry that hardware tokens weren't practical in the consumer market. however, the real problem was the serial-port token readers ... not the chipcard ... but it wasn't possible to reverse the industry perception. The financial industry institutional knowledge about serial-port issues had apparently evaporated in a short five-year period (one of the objectives for USB replacing serial-port was to eliminate all the configuration conflicts epidemic with serial-port).
my wife had put together some joint meetings with financial industry, the PC/SC group in redmond and the kernel security group in redmond as part of an attempt to figure out how the unfortunate mis-perception might be reversed ... but nothing practical emerged.
In the 2nd half of the 90s, EU had created the FINREAD standard that
was targeted at addressing most of personal computing security issues
... but it included a hardened endpoint with hardware token (issues
that couldn't be addressed with just a hardware token ... included a
display that couldn't be compromised and a keypad that couldn't be
spoofed). The EU FINREAD standard was part of the collatrial damage
from the serial-port token reader deployment disaster. some past posts
mentioning EU finread standard:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#finread
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: A computer at home? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:42:26 -0400hancock4 writes:
the issue wasn't at the bank's backend ... although with internet, they could replace huge bank of modems with couple large routers. The problem was with the proprietary online banking software running on the consumers' machines.
At the time, the consumer online banking was providing proprietary software and modem drivers for their customers. typical service would have well over 60 different modem drivers, for different modems, for different operating systems, for different releases of operating systems, etc
there was significant amount of money being spent on managing all the proprietary consumer software (running on consumer machines) as well as enormous amount of money for consumer support trying to help consumers get the right version of software installed ... and avoid getting into situation where they had to reinstall their system from scratch. there was also significant problems with serial port IRQ interrept conflicts. move to the internet effectively eliminated this enormous effort for desig, development, support, maintenance and operation of software on the consumers' machines.
there was also an image problem ... anything that went wrong ... including the frequent cases of having to reinstall systems from scratch ... was blamed on the financial institution. move to the internet ... all those issues became associated with the ISP ... not the financial institution.
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#dialup-banking
this was all offloaded onto ISPs to deal with. then as internet use become more & more pervasive ... vendors started shipping machines with modems pre-installed, configured and software preloaded ... which somewhat mitigated the problems (i.e. vendors weren't going to preinstall for every machine for large number of different proprietary online banking systems ... but they would preinstall/configure for ubiquitous internet use).
then USB came along which drastically simplified the whole serial-port configuration mess ... including eliminating serial-port IRQ conflicts that could stop a system from running.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: A computer at home? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:21:44 -0400Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
i've mentioned before we were called in to consult with small client/server startup because they wanted to do payment transactions on their server; they had also invented this technology they wanted to use ... and part of the effort was mapping this technology they called "SSL" to the payment business processes. The result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
It somewhat came about ... because two of the people mentioned in this
meeting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
had left and were at the startup responsbile for something called the "commerce server". As I've mentioned before, shortly after the above meeting, cluster scale-up (we were working on for commercial, scientific, numeric intensive, DBMS, filesystems, etc) was transferred, announced as supercomputer for scientific and technical *ONLY* ... and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors ... which played a major factor in our deciding to leave also. some old email from the period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
and various past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
which then led into doing "electornic commerce".
Now part of "electronic commerce" was payment gateway ... some
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
which sat between the internet and the payment gateway ... handling payment transactions between internet "commerce webservers" and payment processor backends.
To simplify things a protocol used by major player in the T&E industry was used by the payment gateway to the payment backends. This was software that ran on PC gateway at large T&E location (say large hotel/casino/restaurant in las vagas) handling multiple different concurrent payment transactions over x.25 link to payment backend. For the payment gateway, the software was redone on multiple, clustered unix boxes in high availability configurations. Then SSL transaction session support was added to talk to the webservers on the internet (as opposed to large number of PCs and POS terminals that might be large T&E establishment).
One of my biggest problems was that the payment infrastructure was accustomed to handling 5min 1st level trouble response between the payment backend to the establishment over the x.25 link. Now the x.25 link was short hop over to the payment gateway and it was SSL out to the establishment. The vast majority of my time was spent securing the payment gateways ... and extending the sophisticated x.25 circuit-based problem diagnostic out through the internet.
That was topic drift ... EU FINREAD was connection into consumer PC ... assuming transactions that would be done over the internet .. designed to address many of the internet-based spoofing issues doing things like fraudulent financial and banking transactions ... as well as a compromised PC running various sort of viruses/trojans/malware.
the actual transaction was done in the FINREAD terminal ... the
transaction data was transmitted to the FINREAD terminal and displayed
on the FINREAD termianl (countermeasure to compromised PC where a
transaction is displayed on the screen, but a totally different
transaction is about to be done). The FINREAD termainl interacts with
a secure chipcard for authenticaiton ... with pin physically entered
on the FINREAD pinpad (countermeasure to compromised PC where it can
keylog pins, and then spoof pin entry for transactions that the user
has no knowledge of). A human in-the-loop is required for FINREAD
interaction and can't be counterfeited by malware running in
compromised PC.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#finread
somewhat because of doing "electronic commerce", in the mid-90s we
were asked to participate in the x9a10 financial standard working
group which had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity
of the financial infrastructure for ALL retail payments. the result
was x9.59 financial transaction standard which eliminated a vast
variety of POS, unattended, attended, electronic, internet, etc fraud.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
However, by itself, it could still be subject to malware in compromised PC counterfeiting human operation. EU FINREAD went a long ways towards addressing those problems with a slight issue ... the transaction authorizing institution had no proof that a EU FINREAD terminal was actually being used. We slightly extended x9.59 standard to provide option for two authentications (somewhat analogous two signature requirement on checks). There would be a users tamper resistant secure chipcard for one authentication ... but there could also be a tamper resistant secure FINREAD chip ... where both would authenticate the transaction. We then asked that the EU FINREAD standard be extended to allow a tamper resistant secure chip be part of a FINREAD terminal. Then the authorizing financial institution would have a higher level of confidence that it wasn't a fraudulent transaction.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: A computer at home? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:47:02 -0400hancock4 writes:
many of these guys had started a decade before ... possibly a single kind modem and DOS on single kind of machine with fixed serial-port IRQ. things snowballed over the years with more platforms, different releases, more modems, etc. there would be a large diverse customer set ... and even some still using the same machine from decade earlier (and tremendous problems if they happened to upgrade their system).
by the mid-90s the industry decided to standardize ... and did it by moving to the internet & browsers (which opened up an large can of security worms). besides eliminating enormous amount of proprietary software and consumer support problems ... the numerous serial-port hardware problems became the ISPs' problems (and not blamed on the bank).
posts mentioning dialup banking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#dialup-banking
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Cloud Wars: Now Even the CIA Slams IBM's Technology Date: 22 July 2014 Blog: IBMersCloud Wars: Now Even the CIA Slams IBM's Technology
last week I hadn't posted anything for a day or so and then posted the
DRUCKENMILLER ref
http://www.businessinsider.com/stan-druckenmiller-on-ibm-2014-7
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#25 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#29 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
a few minutes later ... this message started showing up on all my
linkedin group pages:
Your posts across groups are being moderated temporarily because one
of your recent contributions was marked as spam or flagged for not
being relevant. Learn more.
... snip ...
I then posted the "Cloud Wars" URL ... which then disappeared into suspended animation for days.
there are periodic articles about large corporations attempting to blunt negative references on social media in various ways ... including hiring professional organizations that specialize in such stuff. it isn't just limited to large corporations ... the wikipedia wars periodically has gotten exposure ... especially after twitter app that watches for edits/changes and broadcasts the originating ip-address (things like politicians repeatedly removing critical news references and substituting puff pieces).
IBM had earlier gained wide spread reputation for something similar with the FUD practices by sales&marketing. This was especially finely honed in the early and mid seventies during the Future System period. FS was going to completely replace 370s and internal politics was suspending and/or killing off 370 product activity ... then with the demise of FS there was mad rush to rejuvenate the 370 product pipelines. The lack of products during this period left sales&marketing with little else but FUD to fall back onto (the lack of products during this period is also credited with giving the 370 clone processor vendors a market foothold).
FS also represented major IBM culture change ... from "Computer Wars:
The Post-IBM World" Ferguson & Morris on failure of Future System:
... and perhaaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and
Jr of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy
and make no waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that
thereafter, IBM lived in the shadow of defeat:
... and:
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S
took years to kill, although its wrong headedness was obvious from the
very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism
became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
posts mentioning FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
recent posts mentioning IBM FUD:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#44 Resistance to Java
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#25 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#73 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#95 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#2 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#14 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#5 "F[R]eebie" software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#37 Sale receipt--obligatory?
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Mystery of Flight MH17: Motives, Missiles, Flight Plans, and the Media Date: 23 July 2014 Blog: Google+re (actually from the 20th)
From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: New Military Gear Doesn't Have to Cost a Fortune Date: 24 July 2014 Blog: FacebookNew Military Gear Doesn't Have to Cost a Fortune; There's a better way to develop high-tech systems
From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Jul 2014 10:27:58 -07000000000433f07816-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
... in the early 70s when I first did paged mapped filesystem for
cp67/cms (and then ported to vm370/cms) ... I had enormous problems with
the OS/360 adcon convention ... because CMS made heavy use of os/360
compilers and software conventions. periodic past tirades on the subject
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
one of the people responsible for HASP ... then did a page-mapped
filesystem for MFT-II (that he called RASP). Old reference to when it
was decided to add virtual memory to MVT ... both the cp67/cms and the
MFT-II/RASP work was ignored ... past post on the subject (I was asked
to track down somebody that was involved in the decision ... some of his
comments):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73 Multiple Virtual Memory
note the basic original decision was that MVT memory management was so inefficient that (on the avg) only 25% of allocated storage was typically used. adding virtual memory to MVT would allow running 16 initiators on a 1mbyte physical machine (that would ordinarily require 4mbytes, just another on my long list of if you can't figure out how to fix the software, throw hardware at it).
note reference also has comments about OS/VS2 release 1 (SVS) and OS/VS2
release 2 (MVS) being on the glide-path to OS/VS2 release 3 ... the
operating system for "Future System" that would completely replace 370
... some past FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Jul 2014 10:53:03 -0700re:
a little more topic drift. part of the MVT storage allocation issues was with contiguous storage allocation.
quite a few customers were convinced to order 360/67 (very similar to
360/65 but with the addition of virtual memory) to run with tss/360.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSS/360
above has references to TSS/360 supporting position independent code.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
while tss/360 had lots of novel new stuff ... it never quite reached production quality ... so almost all customers run it with something else. lots of them just used it as 360/65 running os/360.
however, the science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
ported cp40 to it for cp67 ... cp40 had originally been done on 360/40
with special hardware modification to support virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/cp40seas1982.txt
Unif of Mich ... did MTS ... later migrated to 370 (and some number of
other univ. ran)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System
Stanford did Orvyl (where Wylbur originates).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORVYL_and_WYLBUR
Boeing Huntsville got a 360/67 duplex which they ran as two separate systems with os/360. They original had gotten 360/67 for operating long-running 2250 graphic display jobs. They modified the 2nd release of MVT (os/360) for limited virtual memory support ... didn't do any paging ... same amount of virtual memory as real memory ... but capable of re-arranging memory to compensate for long running os/360 jobs resulting in storage fragmentation (using address translation, they could re-org memory addresses to get around a lot of MVT storage fragmentation).
note that CICS had similar problems with OS/360 ... but addressed it by grabbing glob of storage and running its own scheduling, dispatching, memory management, and other system services ... to get around problems with base OS/360 services. Boeing Huntsville needed much of os/360 system services with lots of different long running 2250 graphic display tasks.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Jul 2014 13:37:18 -0700dba@LISTS.DUDA.COM (David Andrews) writes:
RASP was virtual memory & virtual filesystem for MFT-II.
the person responsible left and was hired by one of the large clone processor companies where he re-implemented it from scratch. even though IBM wasn't going to do anything with it ... they still sued the clone company (for lifting ibm code) and the court had people do detail review of the new code. Foklore is that possibly only 2-3 trivial sequences of code were found that could be considered similar.
I don't have any recollection of RASP in OS/VS1 JES. I do remember talking to the JES2 group about enhancing shared spool.
There were a huge amount of enhancements to VM370 for the internal
world-wide sales&marketing support HONE system (very little
shipping to customers because corporate hdqtrs was constantly trying
to kill off vm370) ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
part of this was cluster, single-system-image system ... at one time the US HONE datacenter in silicon valley had the largest single-system-image operation in the world, load balancing and fall-over/recovery across all the machines in the complex. The closest thing that came to it was ACP/TPF loosely-coupled operation ... but at the time ACP/TPF didn't have tightly-coupled support ... while VM370 had SMP support ... so could have max. loosely-coupled configuration of max. sized tightly coupled CECs.
Standard OS/360 and ACP/TPF had started out using shared device reserve CCW, then do the I/O channel program, then do device release CCW. ACP/TPF got a special RPQ for 3830 disk controller "logical locking" ... that used memory in the 3830 allowing definition of logical locks ... for serializing logical operations w/o going through the overhead device reserve/release. The problem cropped up tho with string-switch architecture where multiple different 3830s had concurrent access to the same disk, lock memory in one 3830 wouldn't be consistent with lock memory in another 3830 for the same logical operation.
The HONE system for loosely-coupled shared disk operation used a CKD "compare-and-swap" CCW sequence (one of the rare cases where CKD actually proved some benefit over FBA). Data was read from disk, updated in memory ... and a "search data equal" CCW (aka compare) was used ... if it didn't match, it failed ... however if it succeeded it would do a write operation.
Note: later in the early 80s, HONE extended its cluster SSI across geographically separated datacenters, with a 2nd datacenter in Dallas and then a 3rd datacenter in Boulder.
Had some meetings with people from JES2 group about enhancing JES2 shared spool to also utilize compare-and-swap CCW sequence.
other trivia, Charlie had invented compare-and-swap instruction when
he was working on fine grain multiprocessor locking for cp67 at the
science cneter (mnemonic chosen because CAS are his
initials). Attempts to get it into 370 architecture were initially
rebuffed because the POK favorite son operating system people claimed
that test&set was sufficient. Challenge was in order to get
compare-and-swap into 370, had to come up with non-multiprocessor uses
(examples still are included in principles of operation). some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
past posts mentioning aspen (clone vendor's name for RASP):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#69 TSS ancient history, was X86 ultimate CISC? designs)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#35 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#63 Hercules and System/390 - do we need it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#37 A Glimpse into PC Development Philosophy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#44 hasp, jes, rasp, aspen, gold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#26 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#27 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#26 Old PCs--environmental hazard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#24 IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#28 IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#69 Operating systems are old and busted
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#44 someone smarter than Dave Cutler
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:39:31 -0400Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> writes:
FS specs had a lot of blue sky ideas ... some of them not even having
any idea about how they might be implemented. since it was suppose to
completely replace 370 ... internal politics during the period was
suspended and/or killing off 370 efforts. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
some other refs:
Discussion of old FS evaluation
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
FS description and discussion
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
wiki entry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Future_Systems_project
FS design/architecture was divided into something like 13 sections/areas. My wife worked for head of one of the sections and had some responsibility for dealing with other sections ... and was repeatedly surprised/astounded by the lack of any substance backing up some of their fantasies.
part of FS was sort of object with potentially five levels of indirection (& storage access; aka an "hardware" ADD instruction which would handle whether the operands were decimal, floating point, integer, etc ... or even the same). one of the final nails in FS coffin was study by the (IBM) Houston science center ... that if a FS machine was made out of the fastest available hardware ... and an application from 370/195 was moved over to it ... it would have throughput of 370/145 (about factor of 30 times slowdown).
another feature was it was to be "single level store" architecture
... somewhat carried over from tss/360. at the univ. I got to play with
cp67/cms on weekends and sometimes had to share the machine with IBM SE
playing with TSS/360. At one point we did synthetic benchmark for
Fortran edit, compile, link and execute. I got better throughput and
interactive response for 35 simulated users on cp67/cms than he did for
four simulated users on tss/360 (with exact same hardware). I've
periodically claimed that a lot of what i did for cp67/cms paged-mapped
filesystem in the early 70s took into account of "what not to do" from
observing tss/360 (i could easily get three times the native cp67/cms
filesystem throughput). this contributed to my references to
periodically ridiculing the FS efforts (and continued to work on 360 and
then moving to vm370/cms ... during the FS period). posts mentions doing
cp67/cms paged-mapped filesystem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
also part of recent discussion over in ibm-main
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#66 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#67 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#68 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
This goes into major motivation for FS was countermeasure to clone
controllers ... that FS would have such tight integration between
processor and controllers that it would make it extremely difficult for
clones to keep up (but much of the actual specification to accomplish
that was totally lacking)
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
other posts mentioning clone controller work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
A related subject is the end of ACS/360 (which also gets into tiered
processor performance)
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
mentions that it was killed because management was afraid that it would advance the state of the art too fast and they would loose control of the market. at the end of above, it goes into some of acs/360 features finally showing up more than 20yrs later in es/9000.
the person responsible leaves and starts his own clone processor
company. accounts of the lack of 370 products during the FS period is
then credited with giving clone processors a market foothold. This
recent post (in this thread) mentions that it was initially with univ. &
scientific ... before breaking into the true blue commercial market.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#52 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
the folklore is that some of the FS people retreat to Rochester and do
the system/38 ... significantly simplifying a lot of FS features ...
and not having to worry about throughput in the market that they were
selling to. For instance one of the simplifications was that they
treated all connected disks as a common storage pool for single system
filesystem (with any file potentially having scatter allocation across
all available disks). As a result, everything had to be backed up as an
integral whole. A common failure of the time was single disk failure
... but because of the common storage pool paradigm ... the one disk
would be replaced ... and then a complete system restore would be needed
(could easily take 24hrs elapsed time).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/38
and
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/rochester/rochester_4009.html
the follow-on was as/400 which was replacement for s/34, s/36 and s/38
(and dropped some of the s/38 FS features).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:35:53 -0400Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
FS threw in nearly every idea from computer & academic literature of the period ... even if they had absolutely no idea what it met and/or how to implement (little or nothing original with FS). It is not surprising that some of it was eventually made to work (on the other hand, lots of it would never work ... but they had little idea had to differentiate the two, goes way beyond "too ambitious for its time")
165 to 168 was moving from 2mic memory to less than 1/2mic memory and optimizing the microcode so they reduced 370 instruction emulation from 2.1 machine cycles to 1.6 machine cycles per 370 instruction.
168-1 to 168-3 was doubling the cache size from 16kbytes to 32kbytes.
168-3 to 3033 started out being 168-3 design mapped to 20% faster chips ... some other stuff eventually got 3033 up to 1.5times the 168-3.
note that both 3033 and 3081 were concurrently, part of the mad rush
after the failure of Future System, to get stuff back into 370 product
pipeline (using warmed over 370 technology) ... more here (and compared
poorly with clone processors):
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
note that all during this period the manufacturing costs for 370/158 was at the knee of the (POK high-end) cost/performance curve. it was one reason why the 370/158 engine was selected for the 303x channel director.
however, the 4341 using even newer technology came in at even lower better knee of the manufacturing cost/performance curve. while 4341 wasn't individually faster than 3033 ... clusters of 4341 beat 3033 on every metic (aggregate performance, floor space, price/performance, environmentals, etc). at one point the head of pok was so threatened by 4341 threat to 3033 that at one point, he managed to get the allocation of a critical 4341 manufacturing component cut in half.
clusters of 4341s beat 3033 in datacenters ... as well as being the leading edge of distributed computing tsunami ... large corporations installing hundreds at a time out in departmental areas (departmental conference rooms inside ibm became a scarce commodity because of being taken over by 4341s).
old 4300 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
i've periodically commented that John may have done 801/risc to be the exact opposite of FS complexity ... including FS high level abstraction with enormous processing required in the microcode below the instruction interface (including large number of storage references to resolve each instruction operand, aka the reference building FS machine out of 370/195 technology results in factor of 30 times slowdown). Now almost every production architecture is either RISC or CISC with hardware level layer that translates instructions into RISC micro-ops for actual execution.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 25 Jul 2014 07:09:05 -0700sipples@SG.IBM.COM (Timothy Sipples) writes:
having continued to work on 370 all during the FS period ... even
periodically ridiculing FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
... when FS failed, there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370
product pipelines (during FS which was to totally replace 370, lots of
370 activity was suspended &/or killed, lack of 370 products during the
period was credited with giving clone processors a market foothold)
... which contributed to decision to release lots of the stuff that I
had been doing ... some old email:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
an extremely small subset of the page-mapped filesystem stuff was
released as discontiguous saved segments. part of the issue was that FS
was going to be paged-mapped filesystem as single-level-store ... but
done so very badly that it gave paged-mapped filesystem a bad name. so
a lot of work that I had done on cms code to have it run in shared
segments was released ... but a drasticly reduced subset of the CP & CMS
support (w/o paged mapped filesystem support) was released as
discontiguous saved segments. some related recent discussion over
in a.f.c.:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#69 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#70 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
Part of the issue was that FS single-level-store was somewhat brought over from tss/360 w/o any performance improvements. I mentioned as undergraduate I got to play with cp67/cms on weekends sometimes sharing the 360/67 with IBM SE playing with tss/360. We both did the same synthetic benchmark workload for fortran edit, compile, link & execute. I could show 35 simulated cp67/cms user test that had better throughput and response than he did with 4 simulated tss/360 user test. I claimed when I did the cms paged-mapped filesystem, I had learned all the stuff not to do from watching tss/360. With cms paged-mapped filesystem that had three times the throughput of the standard cms filesystem (on same disks and hardware). However, it wasn't enough to overcome the prejudice resulting from the FS failure.
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
as an aside ... I also felt a little rivalry with the multics group
one floor up in 545 tech sq ... which was also a virtual memory
paged mapped filesystem.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
Multics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
from above:
Multics implemented a single level store for data access, discarding the
clear distinction between files (called segments in Multics) and process
memory. The memory of a process consisted solely of segments which were
mapped into its address space. To read or write to them, the process
simply used normal CPU instructions, and the operating system took care
of making sure that all the modifications were saved to disk. In POSIX
terminology, it was as if every file was mmap()ed; however, in Multics
there was no concept of process memory, separate from the memory used to
hold mapped-in files, as Unix has. All memory in the system was part of
some segment, which appeared in the file system; this included the
temporary scratch memory of the process, its kernel stack, etc.
... snip ...
some of the CTSS people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System
had gone to the 5th flr and multics ... others had gone to the IBM science center on 4th flr and did cp40 (later morphs into cp67 and then vm370), internal network, lots of performance and online stuff, as well as the technology used for the internal network and corporate sponsored univ. BITNET. GML was also invented at the science center in 1969 (a decade later morphs into international standard SGML, and another decade morphs into HTML at CERN).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:37:01 -0400re:
related post this morning over in ibm-main
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#71 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
mentioning single-level-store (not just s/38) ... both tss/360 and this
multics reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
from above:
Multics implemented a single level store for data access, discarding the
clear distinction between files (called segments in Multics) and process
memory. The memory of a process consisted solely of segments which were
mapped into its address space. To read or write to them, the process
simply used normal CPU instructions, and the operating system took care
of making sure that all the modifications were saved to disk. In POSIX
terminology, it was as if every file was mmap()ed; however, in Multics
there was no concept of process memory, separate from the memory used to
hold mapped-in files, as Unix has. All memory in the system was part of
some segment, which appeared in the file system; this included the
temporary scratch memory of the process, its kernel stack, etc.
... snip ...
the s/38 common filesystem pool scaled poorly ... just having to save/restore all data as single integral whole, was barely tolerable with a few disks ... but large mainframe system with 300 disks would require days for the operation.
other recent posts mentioning s/38
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#11 Mac at 30: A love/hate relationship from the support front
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#68 Salesmen--IBM and Coca Cola
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#84 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#75 Bloat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#76 assembler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#48 Before the Internet: The golden age of online service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#50 The mainframe turns 50, or, why the IBM System/360 launch was the dawn of enterprise IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#53 The mainframe turns 50, or, why the IBM System/360 launch was the dawn of enterprise IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#96 IBM architecture, was Fifty Years of nitpicking definitions, was BASIC,theProgrammingLanguageT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#97 IBM architecture, was Fifty Years of nitpicking definitions, was BASIC,theProgrammingLanguageT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#9 With hindsight, what would you have done?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:27:55 -0400Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
common failure mode was single disk failure. because of scatter allocation ... all files could have pieces across all disks ... a single disk failure resulted in impacting *ALL* files ... required restoring everything from scratch just to get a running system ... all system files and all user files (nothing could be salvaged from non-failed disks since arbitrary file pieces would be missing).
guy that i sometimes worked with when I got to play disk engineer
over in bldgs 14/15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
filed original patent for raid in 1977
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
i never actually operated s/38 ... but was told several times that the operational restore problems for s/38 with single disk failure was sufficiently traumatic that it motivated s/38 to ship the first raid support.
other posts in thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#40 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#44 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#47 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#48 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#52 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#54 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#55 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#69 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#70 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:44:40 -0400Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
problem wasn't directly single level storage ... it was that s/38 simplified the infrastructure management by treating all disks as a common allocation pool ... and just doing scatter allocation.
also RAID can go a long way to masking single disk failures.
vm370 spool had a similar/analogous problem ... doing scatter allocation and treating all spool areas as common pool. that wasn't too bad for early configurations with spool on single disk ... but increasingly became a problem as configurations scaled up. if any disk failed ... all spool files were lost. vm370 spool had other issues, it had checkpoint for clean shutdown ... allowing relative fast restart. However, if it did have clean shutdown, it required a warm restart ... which could require 30-60 minutes for large configuration ... and while vm370 would do automatic restart in well under 5mins normally ... it waited on spool being up before restart finished ... so system was unavailable during long warm restart.
i've mentioned before that I had a throughput issue in HSDT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
old hsdt email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#hsdt
with vm370 spool because vm370 RSCS/VNET used spool for storage. It used a synchronous 4k (page) block read/write interface ... so was serialized while it waiting for disk transfer. With other activity in system also using spool system, RSCS/VNET might be limited to 5-8 4k block transfer/sec (20k-30k/sec, something that might be with a couple full-duplex 56kbit links). HSDT had multiple full-duplex T1 (and faster) links (and while supporting TCP/IP, also ran RSCS/VNET) ... a full-duplex T1 requires 300kbytes/sec sustained.
So for HSDT, i decided to rewrite spool to allow RSCS/VNET to get upwards of 1mbyte/sec-3mbyte/sec spool sustained throughput. This required asynchronous 4k block transfer interface ... with contiguous allocation, multiple block transfers, write behind and read aheads. Contiguous allocation had option for drive affinity (all blocks on same disk). I also did mechanism so vm370 could be up and available before spool file recovery was complete ... and warm start ran enormously faster (in case of non-clean checkpoint). Also supported moving all data off target drive concurrent running of live system as part of taking drive offline for maintenance as well as adding drives on the fly (somewhat akin later done for some hardware RAID subsystems as part recovery).
this is old email trying to get the spool changes into the internal
network "backbone" nodes that were starting to have multiple 56kbit
links. however, at this time, the communication group was on a
misinformation campaign to convince the corporation to covernt the
internal network to SNA (internal network meetings change to exclude
technical people and only involve management)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306
other old vnet/rscc email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vnet
past internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
I did majority of spool changes writing in vs/pascal running in
virtual address spaces ... and with some slight of hand programming
tricks ... pathlength ran faster than assembler code running as part
of kernel ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#43 Migrating pages from a paging device (was Re: removal of paging device)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#44 PDP-10 Archive migration plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#26 Microkernels are not "all or nothing". Re: Multics Concepts For
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#63 SPXTAPE status from REXX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#19 HERCULES
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#3 History of C
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#38 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#28 MVCIN instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#35 Charging Time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#21 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#45 The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#22 Was CMS multi-tasking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#63 Operating Systems for Virtual Machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#12 Calling ::routines in oorexx 4.0
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#26 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#35 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#25 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#29 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#18 VM Workshop 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#23 VM Workshop 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#24 Co-existance of z/OS and z/VM on same DASD farm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#91 rebuild 1403 printer chain
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: A computer at home? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:36:50 -0400Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
integrated file adapter 135
2319 and/or 3330/3340-series Integrated File Adapter (IFAj: Each feature
permits disk storage units to attach to the Model 135 without a separate
control unit or channel. The 2319 IFA controls as many as eight disk
drives, and the 3330/3340-series IF A attaches as many as sixteen disk
drives. Via the optional intermix feature, 3330-series drives can be
mixed with 3340 drives on the same IF A. Both the 2319 IFA and the
3330/3340-series IFA can be attached to the same system if the system
has the IF A conversion feature installed.
itegrated file adatper 145
Integrated File Adapter (for 3145 Models GE, GFD, H, HG, and I): This
feature, assigned exclusive use of selector channels 1 and 4,
incorporates a file control unit for controlling three to eight drives
of natively attached disk storage. This control unit attaches the
three-drive 2319 Disk Storage Model AI. Additionally attachable, to a
maximum of five drives, are the single-drive 2312-Al, two-drive 2318-Al,
three-drive 2319-A2, and four-drive 2313-A1.
... snip ...
115/125 also had "integrated" controllers
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:51:40 -0400Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
reference to cp67/cms crashing & restarting 27 times in single day ...
because of the crash and auto system restart (tech sq ... but across the
courtyard from 545):
https://www.multicians.org/thvv/360-67.html
from above:
(It is a tribute to the CP/CMS recovery system that we could get 27
crashes in a single day; recovery was fast and automatic, on the
order of 4-5 minutes. Multics was also crashing quite often at that
time, but each crash took an hour to recover because we salvaged the
entire file system. This unfavorable comparison was one reason that the
Multics team began development of the New Storage System.)
... snip ...
i had done ascii/tty terminal support as undergraduate in the 60s which was picked up and distributed as part of standard release. I had done a one byte arithmetic hack (since no terminals supported more than 255 length). Down the road, harvard got some kind of new tty device (i think plotter) that supported line lengths longer than 255 ... USL did quick hack to make the length something like 1200 (or more?) ... but didn't fix the one byte arithmetic ... so lengths were incorrectly calculated resulting in the crashes.
Multics had problem with both salvaging filesystem after crash
(something like unix fsck or vm370 spool warm start w/o checkpoint
start) ... as well scatter allocation
https://www.multicians.org/nss.html
from above
In the initial design of the Multics file system, disk addresses were
assigned in increasing order, as if all the drives of a given device
type made up one big disk. We didn't think a lot about this approach, it
was just the easiest. One consequence of this address policy was that
files tended to have their pages stored on multiple disk drives, and all
drives were utilized about equally on average.
... snip ...
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Settlements and Fines from TBTF Institutions Since the Crisis Date: 25 July 2014 Blog: Google+re:
Settlements and Fines from TBTF Institutions Since the Crisis
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-25/settlements-and-fines-tbtf-institutions-crisis
70 times larger than S&L which had 30,000 criminal referrals and 1000
convictions, ... this time zero, nada
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/03/30000-criminal-referrals-led-1000-felony-convictions-major-fraud-cases-sl-crisis-even-single-prosecution-today-even-though-2008-crisis-70-times-bigger.html
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#66 GAO and Wall Street Journal Whitewash Huge Criminal Bank Frauds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#70 Obama Administration Launches Plan To Make An "Internet ID" A Reality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#21 Thomas Piketty Is Right About the Past and Wrong About the Future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#84 Support Senator Warren's Postal Banking Proposal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#10 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#27 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:18:53 -0400Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
it still only supports ckd disks ... which haven't been manufactured for decades ... all being simulated on large (fixed-block) disk subsystems that make extensive use of virtual volumes and raid (with hardware raid responsible for masking single disk failures). the virtual simulated 3390 data organization may have little to do with the actual physical layout on real disks.
the ckd disks simulated are some flavor of 3390 with some slight of hand that supports max. size that tends to be small multiples of real 3390s (but enormously smaller than the real disks being used) ... 3390 3gb, 9gb, 27gb, and 54gb.
recent 3390 "model A" ... DS8000 release 4 LIC, configuration supports 3390 devices between 1 to 268,434,453 (simulated) 3390 cylinders (max 225tb), z/os v1r10 & v1r11 only supports up to 262,668 max 3390 (simulated) cylinders (223gb).
ds8870 ref
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/ds8000/specifications.html
risc power7 processors, max. 1tbyte memory, up to 3,072TB disk (supporting a variety of real industry standard disks).
I've posted recently about z196 max i/o benchmark that used 104 FICONS
to some number of (presumably ds8000) disk subsystems that got 2M
IOPS. FICON is a heavy-weight mainframe channel emulation layer built
on industry standard fibre channel that enormously reduces the native
FCS throughput. About the same time as the z196 benchmark there was
announcement of FCS for e5-2600 claiming over million IOPS (two such
FCS would have higher throughput than 104 FICON). z196 has other
issues, the claim is that max. i/o instruction SSCH/sec is 2.2M with
all system support processors (SSPs) running 100% cpu utilization
... but the recommendation for normal operation that SSPs utilization
be kept to 70% or less (1.5M SSCH/sec). posts mentioning FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
I haven't seen any published benchmarks for the current ec12 ... but ec12 announcement material was it would have only 30% higher i/o throughput than z196.
posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#40 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#44 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#47 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#48 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#52 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#54 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#55 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#69 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#70 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#72 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#73 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#74 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#76 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:23:17 -0400Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
it went through a couple internal releases and then had support for client platforms ... and released as workstation datasave facility (WDSF).
it did incremental new/changed file backup. internally it started out being used for people that had accidentally erased/corrupted a file or wanted an earlier version of a file. it then started being used to reduce nightly full pack/drive backups to once a week. a single disk failure would restore the most recent full pack/drive backup and then restore latest more recent incremental new/changed files also on the same disk.
it then morphed into ADSM (adstar storage manager) during period where
the disk division was reorganized and rebranded in prepartion for
spinning off into separate company. gerstner was then brought in ... and
he reversed the breakup
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
but then later sold-off the disk division anyway ... at which time some amount of the disk division software was kept and moved into different organization ... ADSM morphing into TSM
posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#40 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#44 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#47 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#48 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#52 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#54 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#55 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#69 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#70 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#72 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#73 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#74 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#76 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#78 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: StarWars Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:58:43 -0400greymausg writes:
later some former co-workers got jobs at ILM doing early computer
controlled visual effects & animation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Light_%26_Magic
from above:
LM is currently the largest visual effects vendor in the motion picture
industry, with regards to workforce, with more than 500 artists. It has
one of the largest renderfarms currently available with more than 7500
nodes. Following the restructuring of LucasArts in April 2013, ILM was
left overstaffed and the faculty was reduced to serve only ILM's visual
effects department.[8][9]
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: StarWars Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:55:20 -0400Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
he later left and got a gig at apple. there has been some comment
that cray used apple to design supercomputers and apple used cray
to design mac.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AppleCrayComputer
his apple gig was programming a cray with very high resolution display on a 100mbyte/sec channel ... which had the ability to emulate a wide variety of human factors characteristics ... w/o having to actually build the hardware.
other trivia ... i saw star wars, raiders of lost ark and some number
of other movies on the wide screen at century cinemas on winchester
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Theatres
and
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Last-Movie-to-be-Shown-at-San-Jose-Century-Theatres-on-Weekend-252893631.html
and
http://www.savethedome.org/
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 27 Jul 2014 08:17:04 -0700tim.zielke@AON.COM (Tim Zielke) writes:
the original 370 architecture had r/o protect for shared segments ... however retrofitting virtual memory to 370/165 ran into difficulty and was going to slip virtual memory announce by 6months. a suggestion was made that r/o protect and some other features be dropped to simplify things for the 370/165 implementation. the POK favorite son operating system said they had no reason to use such features.
however, it resulted in enormous problems for vm370/cms which was already implemented to use it. as a result of decision to drop protection for shared pages ... vm370/cms had to do an ugly hack were it fiddled storage protect keys and psw key for the virtual machine (shared pages became key zero, all other pages became key "F" and the virtual machine psw always ran with key "F"). cms kernel had a single 64kbyte shared segment.
during the FS period, I continued to work on 360/370 ... first cp67
and then moved over to vm370 (and would periodically ridicule the FS
stuff). some old email about move from cp67 to vm370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
this included a cms paged mapped filesystem and greatly expanding sharing ... to any file object (not restricted to executables) could be designated r/o sharing. with the failure of FS, there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines ... which contributed to decision to pick up stuff I had been doing and include in product release ... including significantly extending sharing (past the original 64kbytes of the kernel) ... i had modify various pieces of CMS code so that it could run as r/o shared. However, the full page-mapped filesystem wasn't released ... in large part because of the bad reputation that FS "single-level-store" had acquired (although I frequently pointed out that I had learned what not to do based on what I had seen in tss/360, while FS just repeated all the same mistakes).
In any case, a drastic subset of the sharing was picked up for VM370 release 3 w/o the paged-mapped filesystem, substituting a hack to the early named system support. However, this did greatly increase the number of shared pages that might be active at any one point.
There was some other independent work that was also scheduled for vm370 release 3. VM370 VMA microcode assist came out for vm370 release 2, which directly simulated some number of priviledged instructions in virtual machine mode (w/o having priviledged interrupt into vm370 kernel for simulation). However it could be used by CMS virtual machines running shared segments ... because the VMA implemenation of LPSW, ISK, SSK instructions didn't account for the storage key shared paged protection hack.
Somebody did a "copy-on-write" for CMS shared pages ... instead of the storage-key hack ... virtual machine was dispatched w/o shared page protection. however, before vm370 did task switch, if the previous executing virtual machine was running shared pages, each of the pages were checked for changed/modified bit, if found, the page was "unshared", aka copy-on-write, given to the virtual machine and nonchanged version scheduled for refresh from disk. CMS shared paged virtual machines could now be dispatched with VMA (since the storage protect hack was no-longer being used) ... reducing vm370 overhead ... at the cost of checking 16 shared pages on each task switch ... a net performance win.
The conflict that came together for releasing the "copy-on-write" hack at the same time as significantly increasing shared pages was the VMA trade-off with shareg page checking didn't work when more than 16 pages had to be checked (normal CMS would now have minimum of 32 shared pages, and frequently a lot more). However, some salesman had pre-announced that VM370/CMS release 3 could use VMA to some of the large CMS-intensive customers ... who then had purchased the VMA feature (during the FS period and lack of 370 products, sales was frequently hard pressed to generate any revenue at all). The claim was that even tho the trade-off was no longer valid, they still had to ship CMS use of VMA because they couldn't tell those customers that they paid for something that wouldn't be used.
Things got worse for VM370 release 4 which added SMP multiprocessor
support. The VMA unprotected shared page hack for release 3 was
dependent on only single task accessing a shared page at any moment
(and fixup before anybody else accessed the same pages, since only a
single virtual machine ran at a time). In VM370 release 4,
(2-way SMP) it became worse because two virtual machines could
be running simultaneously. As a result, two sets of shared virtual
pages were required (one for each processor) ... and before
dispatching a CMS virtual machine, its virtual memory tables had
to be swizzled to point to the shared pages specific to the processor
it would run on). posts mentioning SMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
One of my hobbies was doing enhanced production operation systems for internal datacenters ... and a long time customers was the world-wide sales&marketing online HONE system. HONE was one of the first to install CMS shared segment enhancements for APL executable (vm370 release 2 ... long before DWSS in release 3). However, I also continued to provided them with implementation of the storage key protection hack. When they were expanding to the largest single-system-image in the world ... I provided them release 3 vm370 with SMP multiprocessor support ... so all the processor complexes in the loosely coupled complex could also be multiprocessor (and still use the storage key protection).
The HONE production APL environment included a large amount of APL
code that was always active in every workspace. Since APL code was
interpreted, there is some similarity between it and some of JAVA
discussion ... and early HONE hack was to move large amounts of HONE
common APL code into shared pages. Initially this was one-off specific
for the HONE common APL code (bascially appended to executable
image). However, this is old email with APL developer about
generalizing APL to support any workspace load from CMS paged-mapped
filesystem as "shared" (and position/address independent)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#email821104
past posts mentioning HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
and other old email about fulist/browse/ios3270 in shared pages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email781010
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email781011
past posts mentioning paged-mapped filesystem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
past posts mentioning adcon issues for location/position independent
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Counts Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:00:38 -0400Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net> writes:
DU wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: History--error checking in Baudot (5 bit) transmissions Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 19:19:16 -0400Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net> writes:
old email about airline link control (5bit)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email800417
discusses getting ALC connection into the SABRE system that is then made available to the internal network. It mentions that implementation could be similar to the (internet telex) ITPS gateway on the internal network
other old email about 5bit 14.4kbps async to ascii
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#email850412
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#31 Baudot code direct to computers?
old post with article about Airline Link Control ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#8 EBCDIC to 6-bit and back
web ALC reference
http://everything2.com/title/ALC
other web reference with some 5bit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter
for other drift, posts mention ITPS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#45 VM/370 Resource Manager
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#34 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#19 Pennsylvania Railroad ticket fax service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#55 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#14 23Jun1969 Unbundling Announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#48 Before the Internet: The golden age of online service
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 27 Jul 2014 19:44:36 -0700john.archie.mckown@GMAIL.COM (John McKown) writes:
but as i've previously mentioned i let same shared pages appear at
different virtual addresses concurrently in different virtual address
spaces modulo the problem that lots of code in cms was generated by
os/360 compilers that used the adcon convention ... that pinned
executable code to fixed address ... which gave me enormous problems
creating location independent code.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
the small subset that was released as DCSS in vm370 release three, just restricted sharing to identical addresses ... but i continued to ship full support inside ibm (as well as cms paged mapped filesystem) ... also in the reference for (hone) apl ... workspace files could be mapped shared concurrently in different virtual address spaces at different virtual addresses (since it was interpreted code).
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#66 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#67 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#68 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#71 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#82 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 28 Jul 2014 05:53:29 -0700john.archie.mckown@GMAIL.COM (John McKown) writes:
an issue with DCSS (and each virtual address space not being able to dynamically select virtual address) was that shared things had to be given pre-assigned system-wide globally unique virtual address at the time they were created. Out of 24-bit, 16mbyte virtual addresses, that typically met that installation might have around 15mbytes to play with. However as things were adapted to running shared, there became issues with the total number of shared things exceeding 15mbytes and no longer able to have pre-assigned system-wide globally unique virtual addresses for everything. So attempt was made to carefully choose addresses that minimized conflicts for users that needed combinations of different shared objects mapped concurrently. When that didn't work, multiple different versions of the same thing were predefined in DCSS at different virtual addresses. There was then some possibility that it would satisfy community of users with requirements for different combinations of shared objects. However, as sharing technology increased, there was possibility that users had shared objects mapped, but very little sharing going on, since they were using different versions at different virtual addresses.
my original implementation allowed for any file object (w/o system privileged DCSS predefinition, DCSS definition originally required kernel build and reboot) to be shared (each virtual address space could dynamically select its own virtual address for each shared object).
the DCSS problem was analogous to the MVS common system area issue (except VM370 had fallback that user could still load non-shared version at unique address). OS/360 heavy pointer passing API had major problem moving from os/vs2 SVS to os/vs2 MVS with everything in its own virtual address space. In order to access API parameters passed by pointer, every application virtual address had 8mbyte image of the MVS kernel mapped into the 16mbyte virtual address space. However, MVS subsystems were now also in their own virtual address space ... the common segment area (1mbyte) was created and mapped into every virtual address space (leaving 7mbytes for application use) so that application could obtain CSAa for stashing parameters and then calling the subsystem (with pointer to parameters). As large installations increased number of subsystems and concurrent applications, the common segment area size was increasing and morphed into the common system area. By the end of the 3033 era, some large installations were being faced with increasing CSA to larger than 6mbytes, leaving only 1mbyte (or zero) for application use.
exceeding available virtual space came up in internal chip design that had a 7mbyte fortran program running on numerous large mvs systems ... which were carefully crafted to keep CSA to 1mbyte. However, enhancements were constantly threatening to increase the fortran program to greater than 7mbytes. all these mega-MVS systems were being faced with conversion to vm370/cms ... vm370/cms could be operated with all but 128kbytes of 16mbytes for application execution.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:50:22 -0400hancock4 writes:
possible spun as favorably as possible ... modulo:
1) some amount of it hadn't even been specified ... just some high-level ideas and then "where's the beaf" ... many areas were possibly years away from finding whether they were even practical (as opposed to simply lacking sufficiently advanced technology)
2) (ibm houston science center) simulation that showed a 370/195 application run on a FS machine made out of the same technology as 370/195, would have throughput of 370/145 (30 times slow-down). could only be marketed to much less throughput sensitive market ... like s/38 (which wasn't even a 370 market).
3) FS internal politics were killing off 370 product activity, then the lack of 370 products gave the 370 clone vendors a market foothold (killing off internal competition left the market wide-open to external competition)
4) acs-end describes executives killing off acs/360 because it would
advance the computer state of the art too fast and IBM would loose
control of the market (also mentions features from acs/360 not showing
up until more than 20yrs later in es/9000)
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
combination would imply that they wanted enormous advances in cheap memory and powerful CPUs ... but not necessarily available to users.
some more here:
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
including some discussion of Brooks "Mythical Man Month" ... and 3081 (370) in the 80s being made out of warmed over FS technology ... only three times faster than 168 ... but required so much hardware that 16 168s could have been built (could build sixteen 168s for the same cost of 3081 ... and have five times the throughput).
there was something similar earlier in the late 70s with 3033 and 4341 ... 3033 also using warmed over FS technology. multiple 4341s had aggregate higher throughput, lower cost, better price/performance, smaller sq ft and smaller environmental footprint (in the datacenters). they were also the leading edge of the distributed computing tsunami ... large corporations buying hundreds at a time and putting out in departmental areas.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#40 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#44 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#47 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#48 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#52 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#54 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#55 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#69 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#70 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#72 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#73 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#74 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#76 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#78 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#79 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 28 Jul 2014 08:18:59 -07000000000433f07816-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
for adcons in the same executable image ... I would play displacement games that would be resolved at the time the original image is created (by link). Rather than program containing "absolute" adcon ... it contains a displacement. assumption is the base register is the start of the module ... then adcon is something like
extrn program
pdisp dc al4(program-base)
then
l r15,pdisp
ar r15,r12
works whether the displacement is positive or negative (standard os/360
& cms linker supports adcon arithmetic with external symbols). then the
same executable image could appear at dynamically selected virtual
address w/o affecting the contents of the executable image (and the same
exact executable image can appear concurrently at different addresses in
different virtual address spaces)
there is also some loading performance improvement because the image doesn't have to be prefetched in order that all the (os/360) relocatable address constants swizzled to the loaded location (just do the memory map to the potentially shared filesystem object).
the issue then is for addresses between different executable images where the displacement could be different for different virtual address spaces. that needs operating system convention with pool of pointers outside the executable image (with a passed pointer to the address/displacement pool which are virtual address space specific).
past posts mentioning pain dealing with os/360 paradigm technology and
trying to make executable images location independent.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
one of the optimization trade-offs is for first time (or non-shared) mapping, is the object simply page faulted one 4k page at a time ... or is some large amount (or all) prefetched asynchronously with starting execution. I did a lot of hueristic dynamic adaptive stuff associated with loading paged mapped object (shared or not-shared). then later page faults could also result in single 4k page fetch ... or multiple adjacent 4k page fetches in single i/o operation (possibly along with some combination of synchronous and asynchronous operation).
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#66 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#67 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#68 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#71 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#82 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#85 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#86 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: make a new thread Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:46:54 -0400anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
one of the things that help kill off FS was analysis by the IBM houston science center that if a 370/195 application was run on a FS machine made out of the same components as 370/195 ... it would have throughput of 370/145 (30 times slower).
this has other FS issues ... including the 3081 (370) built in the early
80s out of warmed over FS technology ... only had three times the
performance of 168s but required hardware sufficient to build sixteen
168s
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
FS description and discussion
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
wiki entry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Future_Systems_project
old posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
801, risc, romp, rios, power, power/pc etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:41:43 -0400Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
string 8 3330 drives, eight removable 100mbyte disks, upgraded to double
capacity 200mbytes/disks (808 tracks up from 404 tracks)
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3330.html
a string of eight 3330s could connect directly to a 3830 controller or to a string switch ... and a string switch could connect to two different 3830s controllers.
3830 had two channel interface, allowing connecting to two different 370s concurrently.
using string switch, it was possible to access 3330 from up to four
different 370s. was possible to add a 2nd two channel interface to
3830 allowing connection to up to eight 370s
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/dasd/3330/GA26-1592-5_Reference_Manual_for_IBM_3830_Storage_Control_Model_1_and_IBM_3330_Disk_Storage_Nov76.pdf
and over on wayback machine
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibm38xx383efApr72_6929160
these were removable disks ... so installation might have much larger number of (200mbyte) disks that there were drives.
IBM also did 3850 that had some number of 3330 drives connected to
automated cartridge library that could move data back and forth between
cartridge and disk
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3850.html
which could have up to 4720 tape cartridges
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3850b.html
there were a number of complexes like lockheed dialog ... an early
online system, and circa 1980 that had 300 drives that were connected
to two different 370 processors at datacenter in silicon valley
http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=1069
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_K._Summit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialog_%28online_database%29
online before the internet
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jun03/ardito_bjorner.shtml
Roger Summit
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/oct03/SummitWeb.shtml
also (dialog sold to proquest and old URLs gone 404)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140327061241/http://dialog.com/about/history/
and
https://web.archive.org/web/20121011155818/http://support.dialog.com/publications/chronolog/200206/1020628.shtml
past posts mentioning dialog
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#150 Q: S/390 on PowerPC?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#33 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#46 The Alpha/IA64 Hybrid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#51 Author seeks help - net in 1981
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#3 Why are Mainframe Computers really still in use at all?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#0 Search for Joseph A. Fisher VLSI Publication (1981)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#53 10 choices that were critical to the Net's success
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#61 10 choices that were critical to the Net's success
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#52 Microsoft's innovations [was:the rtf format]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#67 Mainframe Spreadsheets - 1980's History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#66 History of project maintenance tools -- what and when?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#38 blast from the past ... macrocode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#55 The very first text editor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#60 3350 failures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#88 Continous Systems Modelling Package
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#24 Old datasearches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#44 Old datasearches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#46 Old datasearches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#34 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#55 Article says mainframe most cost-efficient platform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#47 Graph of total world disk space over time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#39 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Programmer Aptitude Test Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:30:15 -0400Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
development for the 3880 disk controller had some problems. the microcode development system was this large application running on MVS system with limited turn-around. the idea was to get the microcode development system ported off MVS to vm370/cms and moved out to 4341s in the departmental areas ... eliminating the datacenter bottleneck.
the other bottleneck was there was a limited number of floppy disk writters. the floppy disk drives in disk controllers were purely read/only ... the solution was to get some number of floppy r/w drives to go along with the port of the development system to vm370/cms to significantly improve development turn-around and productivity.
old email referencind moving MDB/MDS from MVS to vm370/cms and getting
r/w floppy drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email791010c
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#17 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders
and this email about getting MDB/MDS moved to vm370/cms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#email810128
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#40 25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer
other old 4341 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
when I transferred to San Jose Research, they let me wander around other
locations in the San Jose area, one of the places was the disk
engineering lab. at the time they were doing development testing using
dedicated, stand-alone mainframe processing time, prescheduled 7x24
around the clock. At one time they had attempted to use MVS for
concurrent testing, however in that environment MVS had 15min
mean-time-between-failure ... requiring manual restart of MVS. I offered
to redo i/o supervisor to make it bullet proof and never fail
... allowing any number of on-demand, concurrent testing (greatly
improving productivity). after that they would periodically drag me in
to look at other issues. past posts getting to play disk engineer in
bldgs. 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
later as getting close to ship 3880 disk controllers ... field engineer
had regression testing of 57 typically expected errors ... old email ref
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801015
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#2 The Elements of Programming Style
MVS was still failing (requiring manual restart) for all 57 cases and in 2/3rds of cases, after restart there was no indication of what caused the failure.
other posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#40 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#44 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#47 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#48 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#52 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#54 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#55 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#69 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#70 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#72 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#73 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#74 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#76 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#78 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#79 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#87 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: As OpenVMS nears 30, users dredge up videos from DEC's heyday Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:53:07 -0400As OpenVMS nears 30, users dredge up videos from DEC's heyday; Old clips get posted online to mark operating system's upcoming anniversary
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: As OpenVMS nears 30, users dredge up videos from DEC's heyday Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:43:21 -0400re:
in the wake of the Future System failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
and mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipeline (3033, 3081, mvs/xa, etc), the head of POK managed to convince corporate to kill the vm370 product, shutdown the vm/cms development group in burlington mall, and move all the people to POK (or otherwise mvs/xa wouldn't be able to ship on schedule ... 7-8yrs in the future). Part of the plan was not to tell burlington until the very last mininute ... to minimize the numbers that might escape the move. The info manage to leak early and lots were able to find other positions in the boston area ... joke that head of POK was one of the biggest contributors to DEC VMS (dates back almost 40yrs ago)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: As OpenVMS nears 30, users dredge up videos from DEC's heyday Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:50:53 -0400re:
sorry, the stuff from today
French fight the death of OpenVMS
http://beta.slashdot.org/submission/3733299
French fight the death of OpenVMS
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9250002/French_fight_the_death_of_OpenVMS
with more refs from 2007
OpenVMS Apps Face Uncertain Migration Path
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/290258/OpenVMS_Apps_Face_Uncertain_Migration_Path
OpenVMS, R.I.P. 1977-2020?
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239984/OpenVMS_R.I.P._1977_2020_
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:41:38 -0400Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> writes:
Greenspan says bubbles can't be stopped without 'crunch'
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/greenspan-worries-about-false-dawns-fed-exit-2014-07-24
Please Don't Blame The Fed: Alan Greenspan Says "Bubbles Are A
Function Of Human Nature"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-25/please-dont-blame-fed-alan-greenspan-says-bubbles-are-function-human-nature
C'mon Alan! Bubbles Are Caused By Central Bankers, Not "Human Nature"
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/cmon-alan-bubbles-are-caused-by-central-bankers-not-human-nature/
You Can't Taper a Ponzi Scheme: Time to Reboot
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25201-you-cant-taper-a-ponzi-scheme-time-to-reboot
then
Social media meme says Alan Greenspan said insecure workers 'serve the
masters gladly'
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jul/21/facebook-posts/social-media-meme-says-alan-greenspan-said-insecur/
they fixed the game better this time, during the S&L mess there were 30,000 criminal referrals and 1000 convictions ... this time there have been no criminal referrals, no convictions, and nobody doing jail time (some possibility of 70,000 convictions?)
Fraud Cases During the S&L Crisis ... Not Even a SINGLE Prosecution
Today, Even Though the 2008 Crisis Was 70 Times Bigger
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/03/30000-criminal-referrals-led-1000-felony-convictions-major-fraud-cases-sl-crisis-even-single-prosecution-today-even-though-2008-crisis-70-times-bigger.html
which has contributed to the rise of references that the too big to
fail are also too big to prosecute and too big to jail, some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
there have been "fines" for the press ... but the fines are so trivial compared to the amounts involved ... they are becoming viewed as just the cost of doing business (fraud)
Settlements and Fines from TBTF Institutions Since the Crisis
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-25/settlements-and-fines-tbtf-institutions-crisis
another ref to kind cost of doing business
Corporations used to pay almost one-third of federal taxes. Now it's
one-tenth.
http://www.vox.com/2014/7/25/5936837/chart-us-corporations-declining-tax-burden-inversions-corporate-tax
one scenario is that computer war-gaming started with MICC for winning
strategies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
... but then evolved being used for "winning" financial manipulation strategies (including buying off legislative and regulatory agencies), lots of it is based on volatility, strategies to take cut on change ... and when things are stable ... they purposefully introduce volatility (being able to gamble on the direction of change ... when they've fixed the game). There was over $27T in toxic CDOs done during the bubble, but over quadrillion in CDS gambling bets. There were entities that wanted to continue/delay the bubble while they made CDS bets that the bubble would burst, they purposefully created toxic CDOs that appeared better than what was currently on the market (but actually designed to fail) ... so they could get more bets on the bubble bursting.
The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep the Bubble Going
http://www.propublica.org/article/all-the-magnetar-trade-how-one-hedge-fund-helped-keep-the-housing-bubble
Subprime crisis impact timeline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_crisis_impact_timeline
some derivative bets
The Elephant In The Room: Deutsche Bank's $75 Trillion In Derivatives Is
20 Times Greater Than German GDP
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-28/elephant-room-deutsche-banks-75-trillion-derivatives-20-times-greater-german-gdp
Freeze the $1.5 Quadrillion Derivatives Bubble
http://goldenageofgaia.com/accountability/financial-crash/freeze-the-1-5-quadrillion-derivatives-bubble/
no.2 on times list of those responsible for the economic mess
was responsible for GLBA (repeal glass-steagall) and provision
that prevented CFTC from regulating derivatives.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
The head of CFTC had proposed regulating derivatives and was
quickly replaced with somebody pending her husband getting
the legislation preventing regulation passed
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/17grammside.html
from above:
Enron was a major contributor to Mr. Gramm's political campaigns, and
Mr. Gramm's wife, Wendy, served on the Enron board, which she joined
after stepping down as chairwoman of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
... and
https://web.archive.org/web/20080711114839/http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-01-15/news/phil-gramm-s-enron-favor/
from above:
A few days after she got the ball rolling on the exemption, Wendy
Gramm resigned from the commission. Enron soon appointed her to its
board of directors, where she served on the audit committee, which
oversees the inner financial workings of the corporation. For this,
the company paid her between $915,000 and $1.85 million in stocks and
dividends, as much as $50,000 in annual salary, and $176,000 in
attendance fees,
... snip ...
other
"It Can't Be A Bubble!"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-26/it-cant-be-bubble
John Hussman: "Make No Mistake - This Is An Equity Bubble, And A
Highly Advanced One"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-27/john-hussman-make-no-mistake-equity-bubble-and-highly-advanced-one
earlier this year
Alan Greenspan's Modest Proposal: Fix Broken Economic Models
By... Modeling Irrational "Animal Spirits"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-02/alan-greenspans-modest-proposal-fix-broken-economic-models-modeling-irrational-anima
The Damage From the Housing Bubble: How Much Did the Greenspan-Rubin
Gang Cost Us?
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-damage-from-the-housing-bubble-how-much-did-the-greenspan-rubin-gang-cost-us
Before the Greenspan/Bernanke Put, There Was the Mellon Put
http://mattstoller.tumblr.com/post/75940320469/before-the-greenspan-bernanke-put-there-was-the-mellon
Chronicling The Fed's Follies: America's Housing Fiasco Is On You,
Alan Greenspan
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/chronicling-the-feds-follies-americas-housing-fiasco-is-on-you-alan-greenspan/
Must Have Been Monetary Immaculate Conception! Greenspan Denies Bubble
Responsibility, Again
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/must-have-been-monetary-immaculate-conception-greenspan-denies-bubble-responsibility-again/
The Greenspan Housing Bubble Lives On: 20 Million Homeowners Can't
Trade-Up Because They Are Still Underwater
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-greenspan-housing-bubble-lives-on-20-million-homeowners-cant-trade-up-because-they-are-still-underwater/
and misc. ponzi refs:
The Rot Within, Part I: Our Ponzi Economy
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-22/rot-within-part-i-our-ponzi-economy
JP Morgan Will Not Be Criminally Prosecuted for Its Role in Madoff's
Ponzi Scheme
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=11298
What Did Weintraub Know About Madoff Ponzi Scheme?
http://www.informationweek.com/what-did-weintraub-know-about-madoff-ponzi-scheme-/d/d-id/1127727?
Superstar FX Trader Whiz-kid Nothing But A Superspending Ponzi Fraud
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-24/superstar-fx-trader-whiz-kid-nothing-superspending-ponzi-fraud
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 30 Jul 2014 09:33:49 -0700jwglists@GMAIL.COM (John Gilmore) writes:
pages for same address space were removed from memory in groups of ten ... and written as single transfer to disk. a fetch for any page in the group resulted in full track read for all ten pages (amortizing single arm access across ten page transfer). the write was always done to a new location ... basically first available location closest to moving arm algorithm. to make this effective, it had to ignore whether a page had been changed or not ... and remove groups of ten associated pages in one operation (whether changed or not) all to the same track. additional overhead of writing unchanged pages and potentially fetching unncessary pages (wouldn't be used) in groups of ten ... was deamed to be more than offset by the savings of one arm access for ten page transfer (along with strategies for optimizing arm movement).
additional motivation was there were some non-IBM "fixed-head" simulation paging disks that other vendors were offering using electronic memory ... eliminating arm access & rotational delay. the sales argument was that "big pages" only had to do one arm access & rotational delay per ten page transfer (in theory, negating the benefits of electronic simulated disks).
about the same time, there was 3880-11 and 3880-13 controller caches. 3880-11 was 8mbyte of 4k block cache targeted at paging operations and 3880-13 was 8mbyte of full track cache targeted at file operations.
the 3880-13 marketing was that the cache had 90% hit rate. however, the scenario was sequential file read of 4k records, 10/track. The first record read from track would be miss, but the next 9 records read would all be hits. if the application was changed to do sequential full track buffered reads, cache hit rate would drop to zero.
I got into dustup with the 3880-11 product group that unless they changed the mainframe software, the 3880-11 provided almost no benefit. the issue was most configuration had about the same or more paged mainframe memory (32mbyte 3081) than 3880-11 cache. The effective result was that it would be highly improbably that there would be a record in the 3880-11 cache that wasn't in mainframe memory ("duplicates"). As a result, a page fault for something that wasn't in mainframe memory wouldn't also be in 3880-11 cache (since the 3880-11 were totally full of stuff that was also in mainframe memory). It was possible to do CCW that would eliminate "duplicates" (increasing probability that there was record in 3880-11 that wasn't also in mainframe), but that required changing mainframe software.
I had earlier gotten into dustup with the VS2 group (early, pre-announce SVS) over their myopic decision that when selecting pages for replacement, that non-changed pages were selected before changed pages (since it reduced work, memory location was immediately available because it didn't require write). It wasn't well into the MVS release cycle ... that it dawned on them that they were selecting non-changed, shared, high-use linkpack pages for replacement before selecting lower use, application private data pages.
past posts on page replacement algorithms and strategies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#wsclock
past posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#66 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#67 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#68 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#71 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#82 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#85 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#86 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#88 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The SDS 92, its place in history? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:28:38 -0400hancock4 writes:
A recent max configured z196 with 80 processors is claimed to be aggregate of 50BIPS (thousand MIPS) while more recent ec12 with 101 processors is claimed aggregate of 75BIPS.
A 370/158 might have 8-32 3330 (@200mbyte, 1.6gbyte-6.4gbyte) disk
drives on 1 or 2 channels giving 800kbyte/sec or 1.6mbyte/sec transfer
... or maybe 40-80 4k R/W per sec. This was aggrevated by heavy use of
CKD multi-track search by MVT, SVS, MVS, etc ... which lockup channel,
controller, and disk for multiple disk revolutions (the dependency
continues to this day, requiring CKD emulated disks even though real CKD
haven't been manufactured for decades). I had been called into MVS
customer performance situations where aggregate disk I/O throughput was
reduced to seven/sec because of severe multi-track search issues. past
posts mentioning CKD, multi-track search, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
peak throughput of 370/195 was 10MIPS ... but because conditional
branches normally stalled/drained the pipeline ... lots of codes only
ran at 5MIPS. this gave rise to proposal to do a hyperthreaded simulated
two-processor (two instructions streams sharing common
pipeline/hardware). hyperthreading had previously been work on for
acs/360 ... mentioned here:
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
recent posts mentioning 370/195 hyperthreaded effort (that never
shipped)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#62 Imprecise Interrupts and the 360/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#64 Optimization, CPU time, and related issues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#15 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#5 DEC Technical Journal on Bitsavers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#14 Is end of mainframe near ?
If you are just talking about running 370/158 workload on current day PC ... it is easy to get PCs with real storage greater than typical 158 disk configuration (1.6gbyte-6.4gbyte).
In the discussion of FICON ... I've frequently repeated that much of the fiction about mainframe i/o throughput with large number of channels was really hyped in the 3090 timeframe. The problem is that IBM channels are half-duplex with huge amount of end-to-end protocol chatter that radically cuts actual data transfer throughput. The original 3090 channel configuration assumed the 3880 supporting 3380 3mbyte/sec data transfer (compared to 800kbyte/sec for 3830/3330) ... would also have fast protocol processing. However, while 3880 could do 3mbyte/sec data transfer ... its channel protocol processing was actually much slower than 3830 (which drastically cut each channels effective data throughput). When 3090 realized how bad it was ... they had to significantly increase the number of channels ... in order to achieve aggregate target system i/o throughput. This resulted in added additional TCM (very expensive item) to each 3090 manufacturing. There were semi-facetious references that the 3090 product group would bill the 3880 group for each additional TCM. IBM sales/marketing then came up with story that the significant increase in number of 3090 channels were a demonstration of its great i/o capability (as opposed to the real story that it was needed to compensate for the lack of per channel throughput).
I've recently periodically referred to peak i/o z196 benchmark achieved 2M IOPS using 104 FICON (a heavy weight protocol layer implemented on top of fibre channel standard, that drastically cuts native FCS throughput) ... about the same time a native FCS was announced for e5-2600 blade claiming over million IOPS (two such FCS has higher throughput than 104 FCS using FICON layer).
posts mentioning FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
also e5-2600v1 blade have aggregate BIPS ratings between 400-525 (depending on clock rate) ... two 8processor chips ... e5-2600v2 are currently shipping and new e5-2600v3 expected later this year (might have twice aggregate MIPS rate).
Intel Hasell-EP E5-2600 v3 full lineup's details leaked
http://www.chiploco.com/haswell-ep-e5-2600-v3-specs-35055/
Intel XEON E5-2600 v3 18 Core Hasell-EP CPUs
http://www.eteknix.com/intel-xeon-e5-2600-v3-18-core-haswell-ep-cpus-get-specs-pricing/
then there is this:
Intel makes custom Xeons for Oracle
http://www.itworld.com/hardware/428779/intel-makes-custom-xeons-oracle
recent posts mentionin e5-2600 blades
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#71 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#94 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#18 Quixotically on-topic post, still on topic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#96 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#71 Last Gasp For Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#4 Can the mainframe remain relevant in the cloud and mobile era?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#8 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#12 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#51 Beyond the EC12
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#65 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 Terabytes on a tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#67 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#78 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#86 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#92 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#2 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#4 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#12 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#14 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#2 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#57 [CM] Mainframe tech is here to stay: just add innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#68 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#72 ancient terminals, was The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#78 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 30 Jul 2014 16:12:01 -0700jwglists@GMAIL.COM (John Gilmore) writes:
other page replacement trivia
as undergraduate in the 60s, I did a lot rewriting cp67 for pathlength optimization, I also did dynamic adaptive resourcement management scheduling ... work on page replacement and paging optimization ... as well as changing the disk device driver to support ordered seek queuing (as opposed to FIFO) and page request chaining (on 2301 fixed-head paging drum, increased max thruput from 80/sec to nearly 300/sec) ... nearly all of this was picked up and shipped in standard cp67 ... even before I graduated and joined ibm.
part of the page replacement involved work on "global" replacement algorithms ... at a time when there was a lot of academic literature about "local" replacement algorithms.
at Dec81 ACM SIGOPS, Jim Gray asked me if I could help a co-worker with his Stanford PHD (Jim had left IBM research fall of 1980 to go to Tandem). His coworker's PHD involved "global" page replacement and Stanford was under intense pressure by the "local" page replacements forces (dating back to late 60s). Jim knew that I had significant amount of data for global/local page replacement comparisons, both implemented on cp67, showing global significantly outperformed local ... and he hoped that the actual data would provide Stanford with enough material to standup to the "local" page replacment forces.
A problem arose that IBM research management refused to give me
permission to respond to Jim's request (even in spite of the fact that
most of the work had been done as undergraduate in the 60s, before
joining IBM) ... which went on for nearly a year. Part of response
that I was finally permitted to send, but not until nearly year later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email821019
I was being blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network in the late 70s and early 80s and I hoped they thought they were somehow punishing me for online computer conferencing ... and not taking sides in the academic dustup at Stanford over local versis global page replacement.
past posts mentioning page replacement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#clock
past posts mentioning online computer conferencing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The SDS 92, its place in history? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:17:25 -0400Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
In 1980 I was con'ed into doing channel extender support for IBM STL (now renamed silicon valley lab) that was moving 300 from the IMS group to offsite bldg ... with service back to the STL datacenter. They had tried "remote" 3270 but found it totally unacceptable. The channel extender support would allow local channel attached 3270 controllers at the offsite bldg ... what they were used to in STL (and turns out operation was undistinguishable between the two).
part of the channel extender support had a channel emulator at offsite bldg and channel programs were downloaded for remote execuation. The high overhead, half-duplex channel protocol chatter then was only between the local channel and a controller (in stl datacenter) and between the remote channel emulator and the 3270 controller ... with highly efficient, full-duplex optimized dataflow between.
then there was attempt to make the support available to customers, but a group in POK (that was playing with some fiber-optic stuff) blocked the release (apparently afraid that if it was in the market, it would make if more difficult to justify the release of their stuff). They finally get their stuff released a decade later in 1990 with ES/9000 as ESCON, by which time is was obsolete. It was nominally 200mbit/sec ... but best effective throughput was aggregate 17mbytes/sec (minus channel busy for end-to-end channel protocol chatter latency).
Along the way, one of the RS/6000 engineers does some stuff with what
was to become escon ... but increases bitrate by 10% to 220mbit/sec,
makes it full-duplex and minimizes the end-to-end protocol chatter
(coming closer to aggregate 440mbit/sec thruput) ... which is released
with rs/6000 in 1990 as serial-link adapter ... mentioned here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER1
In 1988, I was asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they
were doing ... which morphs into fibre-channel ... initially 1gbit/sec
full-duplex, 2gbit/sec aggregate. the base infrastructure supported
download i/o programs to remote end ... minimizing latency from
end-to-end handshaking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fibre_Channel_standards
this old post references Jan1992 meeting in ellison's conference room
about using fibre channel standard 2nd half 1992 as part of cluster
scale-up, initially 16-way summer 1992 and then 128-system ye1992
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
also mentioned in old email about cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
as part of ha/cmp effort, some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
some POK engineers then get involved in fibre channel standard and
define heavy weight mainframe channel protocol layer ontop of fibre
channel standard (that drastically reduces the native throughput)
... which eventually morphs into FICON
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICON
as I've mentioned before, by the end of jan1992, cluster scale-up is transferred, we are told we can't work on anything with more than four processors ... and shortly announced as IBM supercomputer for technical and scientific only.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 07:33:13 -0400Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
more fines but no jail:
Bank of America ordered to pay $1.27 billion for 'Hustle' fraud
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/30/us-bankofamerica-fraud-idUSKBN0FZ23R20140730
from above:
While the bank's penalty was below the $2.1 billion sought by the
U.S. Department of Justice, it marks another legal defeat for Bank of
America over its disastrous July 2008 purchase of Countrywide, which has
cost tens of billions of dollars in litigation, loan buybacks and
writedowns.
Bank of America has also held talks on another, potentially
multi-billion-dollar settlement to resolve separate government probes
into mortgage securities, including from Countrywide and its Merrill
Lynch unit.
... snip ...
Bank of America offering $13 billion to resolve probe
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101838659
BofA offers $13 billion to settle mortgage probe: WSJ
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/16/us-bankofamerica-settlement-idUSKBN0FL1U620140716
posts mentioning too big to fail, too big to prosecute and/or too
big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
recent similar thread in (closed linkedin) Financial Fraud group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#10 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#14 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#15 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#18 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#19 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:43:26 -0400re:
... and
RI Treasurer Justifies Hedge Fund Secrecy With Need to "Minimize
Attention" Re Pay, Protect Them From Poaching
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/07/ri-treasurer-jusifies-hedge-fund-info-secrecy-wiith-need-to-minimize-attention.html
refs:
The Untouchables
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/untouchables/
For Once, Maybe Lying Does Not Pay: DoJ's Lanny Breuer Resignation
Leaked After Frontline Appearance
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/for-once-maybe-lying-does-not-pay-dojs-lanny-breuer-resigns-abruptly-after-frontline-appearance.html
Lanny Breuer, Justice Department criminal division chief, is stepping
down
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/doj-criminal-division-chief-stepping-down/2013/01/23/e4331e32-64e0-11e2-b84d-21c7b65985ee_story.html
Black Report: Top Justice official tells Wall St. how to avoid
prosecution
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/09/black-report-top-justice-official-tells-wall-st-how-to-avoid-prosecution.html
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, and too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: A-10 Warthog No Longer Suitable for Middle East Combat, Air Force Leader Says Date: 31 July 2014 Blog: FacebookA-10 Warthog No Longer Suitable for Middle East Combat, Air Force Leader Says
by time f35 is deployed will be out of date for high tech adversary (besides designed as bomb truck with f22s flying cover)
Chinese and Russian Radars On Track To See Through U.S. Stealth
http://news.usni.org/2014/07/29/chinese-russian-radars-track-see-u-s-stealth
Joint Strike Fighter
http://www.ausairpower.net/jsf.html
Assessing Joint Strike Fighter Defence Penetration Capabilities
http://ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html
Chinese Radar May Pierce F-35 Stealth Armor: Report
http://defensetech.org/2014/07/31/chinese-radar-may-pierce-f-35-stealth-armor-report
and expensive vast overkill for low-tech, low-intensity adversary
recent posts mentioning a10 &/or f35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#65 Washington Post on Target store data thefts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#22 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#0 Navy's F-35C Completes Landing Tests Ahead of October Sea Trials
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#1 If We Don't Keep The F-22 Raptor Viable, The F-35 Fleet Will Be Irrelevant'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#4 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#40 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#51 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#66 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#81 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#83 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#85 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#86 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#92 Why do bank IT systems keep failing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#3 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#40 Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#47 Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#69 Littoral Warfare Ship
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#96 Lockheed Martin F-35 Jet's Software Delayed, GAO Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#102 How the IETF plans to protect the web from NSA snooping
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#1 Obama to Kill Tomahawk, Hellfire Missile Programs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#6 Credit Card Breach at California DMV Provides Yet Another Warning of Cyber Insecurities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#9 Boyd for Business & Innovation Conference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#24 Tandem Memos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#27 TCP/IP Might Have Been Secure From the Start If Not For the NSA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#78 How the Internet wasn't Commercial Dataprocessing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#19 Is cybersecurity the next banking crisis in the making?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#35 upcoming TV show, "Halt & Catch Fire"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#36 IBM Historic computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#46 The Pentagon Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#68 A-10 Attack Jets Rack Up Air-to-Air Kills in Louisiana War Game
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#70 Obama Administration Launches Plan To Make An "Internet ID" A Reality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#73 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#74 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#90 A Drone Could Be the Ultimate Dogfighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#17 Is it time for a revolution to replace TLS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#22 Has the last fighter pilot been born?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#48 The Pentagon Is Playing Games With Its $570-Billion Budget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#51 Has the last fighter pilot been born?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#81 weird power trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#18 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#31 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#36 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#49 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#52 EBFAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#61 Are you tired of the negative comments about IBM in this community?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#67 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#90 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#92 Off topic screeds (was Re: Friden Flexowriter equipment series)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#98 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#7 You can make your workplace 'happy'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#13 IBM & Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#20 US No Longer Tech Leader in Military War Gear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#61 A computer at home?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#83 Counts
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